Evaluate with an actual person, don’t make an assumption.

Reading is the ability to abstact information from a page - Psychology of Reading

Fixation - the point of attention.

Saccade - the point between fixations (1/100 of a second).

Heat maps for readability

Words are like long-term memory. The more you read, the easier they are to recall.

Which words to use

common vocab of about 15,000 words so that it takes less “processing power”.

Typography

A measure is the width of the text box. 56 character is a good measure.

Don’t force readers to work your way; work theirs.

Beginner’s Guide to Usability Testing

In a usability test…

  1. figure out what it is
  2. how they use it

5 users > 80% issues found

Specific user sets