Eye-guiding colors
By Kristoffer Bohmann, Bohmann Usability
Eye-guiding colors. Amazing what a few colors can do to usability. I added a light gray background color to the featured articles on my homepage. The color change aims at enhancing user performance by making it more obvious where most users want to start reading. Result: The articles have now become an anchor point. It's one of the first things you see upon entering the homepage. As you scroll down, the colored box helps you understand where you are relative to the page top - this is especially helpful if the homepage is long.
Kristoffer Bohmann
