“Users don’t scroll long pages.”
“People avoid pages with a lot of content.”
These are two common misconceptions about website content debunked in a recent article by the Nielsen Norman Group. The article focuses on accordion menus, and how studies have shown that the use of accordion menus to show and hide blocks of content, in order to keep the page length short, are often less helpful than simply displaying all of the content, even if it creates a long page. Continue reading “Accordions are bad. Scrolling is ok.”