We’ve been using eye tracking studies to improve the usability and design of our client’s websites for a few years now – eye tracking is also used for TV and print, here’s an example of eye tracking on a TV ad for Martini posted on YouTube…
Source: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=v0xG1xQTf9E&feature=related
Here’s a really interesting piece of eye tracking work done by Jakob Nielsen (April 2006): F-Shaped pattern for reading online
The eye tracking study of 232 users found users often read web pages in an F shaped pattern:
- first users read in a horizontal movement across the page
- then they move down the page and read a second shorter horizontal movement
- then the users scan the content’s left side in a vertical movement.
These eye tracking heatmaps clearly show the F shaped pattern.
Source: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/reading_pattern.html