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Eyetracking of forms: should we accept the conclusions?

Caroline Jarrett has written an article summarising the research on the eyetracking of forms, and discussing the conclusions. To quote:

Now, I think all this is very interesting and I'm glad that Matteo is working on it. But I'm a touch cautious about applying all his conclusions without thinking them through a bit more. For example, he advocates placing labels above the fields because that condition was the quickest - but as 'Steve' points out in his comment on the article, the labels are slightly easier to understand for the form where the labels were placed above the fields.

Posted by jamesr on November 04, 2006 03:20 PM
Categories: Usability & user-centered design