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wet-boew / wet-boew-styleguide

A style guide for the Web Experience Toolkit.
http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew-styleguide/index-en.html
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"Users do scroll down the page" - Update #359

Closed mgifford closed 5 years ago

mgifford commented 5 years ago

Dates on some of these quotes are relevant. This quote was from a study that was written about in 2010. User behaviors change over time:

"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."

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/scrolling-and-attention-original-research/

With mobile devices and infinite scroll, I do think that these ideas are a bit outdated.

Would love to have someone confirm this who knows UX better than I do.

RobJohnston commented 5 years ago

I guess that's in reference to these two pages:

mgifford commented 5 years ago

Sorry.. Dates I do think are useful on some quotes.. But I think that that I totally misread what was on the printed screen.

Anyways, yes. It was in reference to that @RobJohnston - feel free to re-open it but given my misreading I'm going to close it now.