On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 03:09:08PM +0200, Christian Grobmeier wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 2:56 PM, Marvin Humphrey <mar...@rectangular.com>
> wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 08:39:40AM +0100, ant elder wrote:
> >> I don't want to get in the way of those who are doing all this good work
> >> with the website but my 2c's is I also would prefer visited links to have a
> >> different colour.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=986066
>
> Unfortunately the pdf is not free and so we cannot look what exactly
> has an impact.
Sorry, here is a free link:
http://ix.cs.uoregon.edu/~hornof/downloads/CHI04_Link.pdf
Link Colors Guide a Search
Tim Halverson and Anthony J. Hornof
Department of Computer and Information Science
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
It's only four pages long, it's easy to understand and pretty interesting!
> Because, if some links are marked visited, and some - even when read - are
> not, how does this play into game?
That happens with exactly the same link, i.e. not anchors? If so, that sounds
like something which ought to be addressed independently.
> And for which kind of websites does this research apply on?
The research was done on groups of red and blue words in isolation: think the
navigation menu extracted out of the web page.
As such, it has broad application to just about all websites and also to
similar visual navigation systems.
> Have you read it?
Sure, I've read it. I used to be a graphic designer, but I was the kind who
liked to back up my prejudices with usability studies. Not that the citations
always persuaded people who held opposite prejudices. ;)
Personally, I find it irritating when I click on the back button and I'm
swimming in a large web page and can't reorient myself easily to where I left
off because visited link color is not differentiated.
However, you're putting in all the time here, and to echo Ant Elder once
again, I don't want to get in your way. So: -0 on not differentiating visited
links.
Keep up the good work,
Marvin Humphrey
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