Notebook | Web Style Guide
Field notes from Web Style Guide authors Patrick J. Lynch and Sarah Horton

New insights on scrolling

By Sarah Horton on March 22, 2010 10:42 AM | No Comments

"Web users spend 80% of their time looking at information above the page fold. Although users do scroll, they allocate only 20% of their attention below the fold."

The latest usability data on scrolling, from Jakob Nielsen.

Superb visualization of the history of web browsers

By Patrick J. Lynch on January 26, 2010 12:10 PM | No Comments

Elegant, and informative.

Free first chapter of Peter Morville's new book "Search Patterns"

By Patrick J. Lynch on January 16, 2010 11:06 AM | 1 Comment

Peter Morville has released a free copy of the first chapter of his new book Search Patterns, due from O'Reilly in mid-February. Peter's seminars on search patterns are excellent, and I'm really looking forward to getting the new book.

Great free stock image reources

By Patrick J. Lynch on January 12, 2010 9:32 AM | 1 Comment

Great free stock image resources, and don't forget WikiMedia Commons as well.

The power of a superb infographic

By Patrick J. Lynch on January 3, 2010 12:39 PM | No Comments

Everything you need to know about how screwed up our current healthcare system is in the U.S., in one devastating graphic, from National Geographic.

What could kill an elegant, high-value participatory project?

By Patrick J. Lynch on December 31, 2009 12:14 PM | 2 Comments

A valuable parable and warning for many kinds of highly participatory enterprise projects like "Web 2.0" blogs and wikis, implementing a CMS, or really any kind of project that aims at changing the behaviors of large numbers of people. Even a project that the target audience loves may be doomed without adequate logistics and staff support.