Banner Blindness: The Original Eyetracking Research, 10-year research overview
Banner Blindness The Original Eyetracking Research 10year research overview
Banner Blindness: The Original Eyetracking Research, 10-year research overview
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I’ve been reluctant to discuss one of the findings from our eyetracking research because the conclusion is that unethical design pays off .
In 1997, I chose to suppress a similar finding : users tend to click on banner ads that look like dialog boxes, complete with fake OK and Cancel buttons. Of course, instead of being an actual system message — such as «Your Internet Connection Is Not Optimized» — the banner is just a picture of a dialog box, and clicking its close box doesn’t dismiss it, but rather takes users to the advertiser’s site. Deceptive, unethical, and #3 among the most-hated advertising techniques. Still, fake dialog boxes...
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