Ever since Jakob Nielsen suggested years ago that people don’t read on the Web, their eyes just skim the page , most of the content you encounter online comprises of short blocks of text, bullets, highlights, words set in bold, and other devices designed to catch the eye.
Leave it to The Onion, the best satirical news source on the Web, to poke fun at our inability to now focus on a large block of plain text long enough to capture its meaning.
“Unable to rest their eyes on a colorful photograph or boldface heading that could be easily skimmed and forgotten about, Americans collectively recoiled Monday when confronted with a solid block of uninterrupted text.
Without an illustration, chart, or embedded YouTube video to ease them in, millions were frozen in place, terrified by the sight of one long, unbroken string of English words.”
Excellent! (RN)
Nation Shudders At Large Block Of Uninterrupted Text | The Onion | 9 March 2010
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