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Category Archives: eyetracking

10,000 Words: Friday Roundup: This week in visualization

Posted on 5 November, 2010 by Martin Stabe
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"Jakob Nielsen, posted research (and sick visuals) this week showing that users pay close attention to web photos and images that contain relevant information but ignore stock photos and other purely decorative fluff. ... "
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10,000 Words: Friday Roundup: This week in visualization

Posted on 5 November, 2010 by Martin Stabe
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"Jakob Nielsen, posted research (and sick visuals) this week showing that users pay close attention to web photos and images that contain relevant information but ignore stock photos and other purely decorative fluff. ... "
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Boing Boing: Web-headlines benefit from passive voice

Posted on 23 October, 2007 by Martin Stabe
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"[Usability guru Jakob Nielsen]'s thesis is that the passive voice — which is usually frowned upon by people who love good prose -— enables headline writers to "front-load" their heds with the key concepts from the story."
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Martin StabeMartin Stabe is a journalist based in London. He is an interactive producer at the Financial Times, primarily working on developing the databases underlying FT.com’s interactive graphics and the FT data blog. This is a personal site, and nothing here reflects the views of the FT.

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