Write to be read

18:48 on Mon 2008-07-14 by Leons Petrazickis Opinion, Writing

In 1997, Jakob Nielsen wrote How Users Read on the Web. His organization conducted a formal study of usability and found: Concise text (half the words) is 58% more readable than rambling text. Scannable text (bullets) is 47% more readable than wall of text. Neutral language (facts) is 27% more readable than marketese. Nielsen added [...]