On Sep 19, 2008, at 6:07 AM, Tamlyn Rhodes wrote:
I didn't go straight for this solution is LukeW & Etre's eye- tracking study which showed that a form works best when the primary action is on the left, aligned with the form fields.
That's also just one study, which contradicts years of HCI research. I would interpret this to mean that either it's an unusual case, or that time are changing. It's difficult to know w/o follow up studies.
A few cautions about eye-tracking, having done a few studies myself, it only measures where people look and for how long. It doesn't tell you why they looked there or where they clicked. It doesn't measure hand-eye coordination. Where people look is important, but ultimately, it's important to know where they looked, where they clicked, and why. Eye-tracking only provides part of that answer, just like web log analytics only provide part of that answer.
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