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Streams, Walls, and Feeds: 109 Design Guidelines for Improving Notifications, Messages, and Alerts Sent Through Social Networks and RSS
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Streams, Walls, and Feeds: 109 Design Guidelines for Improving Notifications, Messages, and Alerts Sent Through Social Networks and RSS

by Nielsen Norman Group
February 2010
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
210 pages
5h 41m
English
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Chapter . Design Guidelines: RSS/News Feeds

News Feed Content

Focus on one topic in each item

Similar to information sent through social networks, RSS is a good way to deliver discrete chunks of information rather than summaries or recaps of multiple items. Users didn’t expect one headline to include links to multiple items; when it did, it made it more difficult for people to use the information.

One user in our field study said, “An RSS feed with a bunch of links does me no good. I know they’re doing it because it’s difficult to get a full article for each item, but it’s a pain.” He liked to quickly review each item and click through to any story he wanted to read. When multiple items were listed together, it slowed him down.

Another user, while ...

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ISBN: 9780132107501