Banner Blindness¶
Benway, J. P., & Lane, D. M. (1998). Banner Blindness: Web Searchers Often Miss Obvious Links. Internetworking, 3(1).
Cited by¶
2 citations across 2 artifacts.
Each citation links to the sentence it supports in the citing article.
Mechanisms¶
- Foreground/Background Usability Test
- It is the direct counter to banner blindness and its kin — the way receivers learn to ignore regions that look like decoration, so a genuinely important element placed there simply goes unseen
This sourceShows that users can overlook a genuinely important link when it is presented in a banner-style region.
- It is the direct counter to banner blindness and its kin — the way receivers learn to ignore regions that look like decoration, so a genuinely important element placed there simply goes unseen
Verification¶
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Does it back the claim? Not recorded. Neither this nor any other of the 2 citations of this work carries a recorded support check.
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