The online Journalism Review has a synopsis of some new eyetrack and usability research that bolsters the position that editing and designing for online is different that designing for print.

• Test subjects were in New York
• Study was conducted in 2005
• Structured story forms scored well

Usability experts Jakob Nielsen and Tara Pernice Coyne of the Nielsen/Norman Group conducted a Web site eyetracking test with 255 people in New York City And found that online stories fare better when they are tightly edited, highly structured and bullet-list driven.

Read the eyetrack study review by Laura Ruel and Nora Paul at Online Journalism Review.