UX Myths. Top 10 UX Myths. Al Gore invented the Internet.
Drinking alcohol keeps your body warm. You won’t get pregnant if you stand on your head after … well, you get the idea. Myths are those hard-and-fast rules that often start as a plausible idea or once-off observation that grow and distill into ‘common knowledge’ as they virtually spread. I know I’ve believed a few of these. I’ve also asked my UX expert Twitter friends for their UX Myths – and they have many! The myth of the page fold: evidence from user testing. As web professionals, we all know that the concept of the page fold being an impenetrable barrier for users is a myth.
Over the last 6 years we’ve watched over 800 user testing sessions between us and on only 3 occasions have we seen the page fold as a barrier to users getting to the content they want. In this article we’re going to break down the page fold myth and give some tips to ensure content below the fold gets seen. User Testing Busts Myths About Touchscreen on Laptops.