Link presentation and Fitts’ Law
March 30th, 2008
When I was stumbling around this morning, I came across a site which mentioned Fitt's Law:
"The time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target."
This means that, when the distance becomes smaller and size becomes larger, then the time taken to acquire a target(link) will decrease. You can apply this to links really neatly. Let's see what I'm talking about:
In which the right navigation is, of course, far easier to navigate. The links you can click on are bigger (and that is obvious thanks to the "underline"), when you hover over a link, you are not obscuring the link text you might want to click and you're also bringing some structure into your webpage.
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