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Lesson 6

Human Handbook

Making Messages Easy to Scan

Use labels, paragraphs and lists to make important information findable.

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Signal vs. Noise

Predict

In an eye-tracking study, some people looking through a text-heavy web page concentrate on its upper lines and left side. What does that observation suggest about an important instruction near the end of the page?

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