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Don't Make Me Think: Key Principles of Web Usability

Jakob NielsenNielsen Norman Group8 min readOctober 1, 1997
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Research-backed findings on how users actually read on the web: they don't. Users scan pages in an F-shaped pattern, looking for keywords, meaningful headings, and short paragraphs. Provides evidence-based guidelines for writing and structuring web content: use highlighted keywords, sub-headings, bulleted lists, and half the word count of conventional writing.

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