How fast do you think you scan a search page?

February 7, 2009

Google has been conducting some cutting edge research on how we scan web-pages, especially search result pages. Since I have been working on web-page/web-site designs for the last while I thought of sharing this video with you.

The following video clip shows in real time how a participant in one of their study scanned the page. And yes, the video is in real time! Amazing to see how fast the eyes move when scanning a page. The larger the dot gets, the longer the users’ eye pauses looking at that specific location.


How fast do you think you scan a search page?

February 7, 2009

Google has been conducting some cutting edge research on how we scan web-pages, especially search result pages. Since I have been working on web-page/web-site designs for the last while I thought of sharing this video with you.

The following video clip shows in real time how a participant in one of their study scanned the page. And yes, the video is in real time! Amazing to see how fast the eyes move when scanning a page. The larger the dot gets, the longer the users’ eye pauses looking at that specific location.


Alternative perspective discussion on SaaS

February 4, 2009

Madison Laird a fellow denizen of Twitterverse initiated an interesting conversation few days ago. He tweeted “I’m ranting about the drawbacks to SaaS. I love being a contrarian. Anyone want to brawl about it?” and I, like others, tweeted back saying yes SaaS has drawbacks, but its benefits to small and medium size business outweigh the drawabacks.

Madison did the appropriate thing and took the conversation to his new blog with the post titled Alternative Perspectives on SaaS. By the way Madison, I applaud you for doing so. It demonstrates your good social-media acumen and gives us more space (>140 characters) to share our thoughts.

I look forward to understanding your perspective better. I did post a comment, that I will repost here next and respond to your questions better.