Do you know about the F shaped pattern of website screen scanning? No. Well you should.

I like the way that the NN/g newsletter looks back at the old adages of web design to see if they are still relevant. Most often than not they are.

This certainly seems to be the case of the F-Shape pattern of screen scanning.

I get the feeling that a lot of designers have forgotten this 'rule'. If you ignore it you better have a good reason.

I cannot prove it but I would think that older web users are even more likely to adopt this scanning pattern than the young. Dick Stroud