Keynote presentation for Procopywriter network conference, Oct 2017. Includes user journeys, reading psychology and the law in making websites unreadable.
28. It was a really sunny Saturday.
Sam was having a great time on
the beach. It took ages to find the
pump and her friends were
already on their inflatables in the
water. Sam couldn’t believe how
long it was taking to inflate the
large carrot. She needed an ice
cream badly.
29. Words are easily skipped if they
are easy to process. This
happens when they are:
• short
• high frequency
• and/or predictable
30. “Eye movements are affected by
the need to make a grammatical
and legitimate metrical
structure.”