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Field notes from Web Style Guide authors Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton

Follow me on Twitter: @patrlynch

By Patrick J. Lynch on April 1, 2010 8:15 PM | 3 Comments

While I will continue to use this space occasionally for comments tightly linked to the Web Style Guide, see my Twitter posts for most of my daily comments, observations, and link pointers: @patrlynch

New insights on scrolling

By Sarah Horton on March 22, 2010 10:42 AM | No Comments

"Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold."

The latest usability data on scrolling, from Jakob Nielsen.

Superb visualization of the history of web browsers

By Patrick J. Lynch on January 26, 2010 12:10 PM | 1 Comment

Elegant, and informative.

Free first chapter of Peter Morville's new book "Search Patterns"

By Patrick J. Lynch on January 16, 2010 11:06 AM | 1 Comment

Peter Morville has released a free copy of the first chapter of his new book Search Patterns, due from O'Reilly in mid-February. Peter's seminars on search patterns are excellent, and I'm really looking forward to getting the new book.