Mousing Behavior Visualization

April 12, 2004 at 3:08 PM

Andy Edmonds is in the process of finishing his masters thesis, He has compiled some pretty good results here: The Making of a Visualization: Notes on Mousing Behavior in Menus. This brings to the table the issues surrounding navigation and menus. As you see Digital Web Magazine has a menu along the right side of the page, however we have found that even though the mouse tends to stay on the right side of the page near the scrollbar, the user actually looks to the left side of the page for the primary navigation. More info can be found here in this great article by Michael Bernard. Needless to say the redesign will include a navigation on the left side of the page.