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> We don’t read pages. We scan them. Had a good chuckle as I scanned to this headline. For me at least, it's very true

• robbyking 12y ago
  It's amazing that magazine layout designers did as well as they did considering they didn't have a measurable fraction of the data we have now on users' reading habits. With the (ever evolving) data we now have from eye tracking tests in usability labs, modern designers have an amazing advantage when it comes to creating intuitive web pages and applications. The downside, though, is so much of the web has become homogenous. It feels like every start up has an out-of-the-box website build with bootstrap, complete with a full-width parallax header image and liberal use of Helvetica Neue.
  • emodendroket 12y ago
    > The downside, though, is so much of the web has become homogenous. It feels like every start up has an out-of-the-box website build with bootstrap, complete with a full-width parallax header image and liberal use of Helvetica Neue. Really, that's a win in the eyes of most users, who are more interested in easily finding what they were looking for than whizz-bang features.
  • dredmorbius 12y ago
    so much of the web has become homogenous Feature. Now, if it would only homogenize on a good, useful, and readable standard. If the entire Web looked like a Readability page (http://readability.com http://readability.com) this would be a Good Thing. Web design isn't the solution. Web design is the problem.