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Roundup: Ten Best Looking (Free!) Screen Savers | Apartment Therapy Unplggd. Eyetracking points the way to effective news article design. When one of world’s best-known usability experts, Jakob Nielsen, conducts eyetracking research to test what his usability work has shown, the results generate some beneficial tips for online editors. This is what happened in late 2005, when Nielsen and Kara Pernice Coyne, the Nielsen/Norman Group’s director of research, conducted an eyetracking test with 255 people in New York City. With a little more than half of the participants (63 percent) ages 30 to 49, the test generated results applicable to the target audience for most news sites. Additionally, 20 percent were 18-29 and 16 percent were 50-64. Fifty-eight percent were female, 42 percent were male. Every test subject was given 50 tasks to complete. Coyne (who we interviewed for this column) stresses that crucial to understanding the testing results is an awareness of the user’s motivation or goal behind each task.

We’ve featured three of the more interesting journalistic study results below. BrowserMarketShare. Content-Aware Image Sizing [EN] The Open Internet: A Case for Net Neutrality. Whynottobuyamac.png (PNG Image, 1440x3297 pixels) - Scaled (23.