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dahauns t1_j2wgkeo wrote

Reply to comment by spays_marine in The Laws of UX - beautiful website explaining 21 rules for effective UX design by Quackerooney

> Books are vertical interfaces.

Last time I checked, the central mode of user interaction - i.e. turning the page - is almost always strictly horizontal.

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spays_marine t1_j2xjjr0 wrote

The central mode of user interaction is reading from top to bottom along a left justified vertical axis. There are specific rules about line width and even word count per line because we experience them as awkward and hard to follow if they approach a rather horizontal orientation.

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