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Colin Wheildon/legibility/Ole Lund/reading/sans serif/serif/typography

Fighting bad typography research

Posted on March 8, 2012 by Alex Poole

When you hear claims which are radically different from the established body of research, you should rightly be sceptical - here we go two rounds with some rogu...

legibility/reading/sans serif/serif/typography

Which Are More Legible: Serif or Sans Serif Typefaces?

Posted on February 17, 2008 by Alex Poole

Back in 1998 when Times New Roman was still widely used on the web, my then boss made sure we always designed our web sites with Arial, as she hated the look of...

bookmarks/eye tracking/favorites/information salience/visual search/web

How do people find and recognise browser bookmarks?

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Alex Poole

A masters thesis and conference paper exploring the effect of bookmark naming on bookmark recognition.

eye tracking/metrics

Eyetracking metrics (book chapter)

Posted on February 3, 2008 by Alex Poole

I wrote this book chapter to provide a comprehensive listing of eye tracking metrics and what they mean in the context of HCI and usability.

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