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cxpartners.co.uk
Company blog · cxpartners.co.uk/cxblogdesignweb
cxpartners.co.uk is the company blog at cxpartners.co.uk, writing about design and web. Since 2009, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Web forms design guidelines: an eyetracking study”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link CX Partners' UX research posts, such as the myth of the page fold and eye-tracking analysis of web form layouts. One commenter calls the form-design article very interesting.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Web forms design guidelines: an eyetracking study3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2009-06-01
- The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-10-07
- /cxinsights/web_forms_design_guidelines_an_eyetracking_study.htm2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2010-09-02
What Hacker News says?
Here are a couple pages I found in my bookmarks that contain some data. "Blasting the Myth of the Fold (2007)" http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/blasting-the-myth-of "The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing (2009)" http://www.cxpartners.co.uk/thoughts/the_myth_of_the_page_fo...
Comment linking /thoughts/the_myth_of_the_page_fold_evidence_from_user_testing.htm
on “Life Below 600px”Submitted Verified by Visa and Mastercard SecureCode are broken and need to be fixed as a story · 87 points
HN discussionHere's a very interesting article from CX Partners ( http://www.cxpartners.co.uk/cxinsights/web_forms_design_guid... ) which analyses different form layouts, labels placement etc. on few popular websites (Google, Yahoo, etc.) in which they used eye-tracking to find the flaws in the forms design and to identify common usage patterns which users follow.
Comment linking /cxinsights/web_forms_design_guidelines_an_eyetracking_study.htm
on “Why Users Fill Out Forms Faster With Top Aligned Labels”Submitted The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing as a story · 69 points
HN discussion> It sounds like he's not evaluating the Finder, or any other window manager on its own merits. He's comparing it to what he's used before (command line) and assuming that any new way of doing things won't need relearning, or at least that relearning should be easy because he's a "poweruser." - Assessing a window manager in isolation from the rest of your workflow makes no sense. - Based on my experience with ribbon…
Comment linking /cxinsights/web_forms_design_guidelines_an_eyetracking_study.htm
on “Improvements in Windows Explorer - Building Windows 8”Submitted Web forms design guidelines: an eyetracking study as a story · 55 points
HN discussionSubmitted The UX of HTML5 as a story · 33 points
HN discussionSubmitted Eyetracking Study for Web Forms as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Appropriate Design as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mobile app or mobile web? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Web form design guidelines: an eyetracking study as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted When you shouldn’t listen to your users as a story · 1 points
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