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Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help?

Posted by John Lampard on Thursday, 8 May, 2008 to the design and art subset

Zebra Striping: Does it Really Help? Jessica Enders challenges the notion that "zebra striping", that is applying faint shading to alternative lines of text or information, assists in better comprehending multiple rows of data, especially online. Her research revealed there was a 4 per cent difference in comprehension error rates when reading zebra striped data against non zebra striped information. Many believe that zebra stripes aid the reader by guiding the ... Read full entry

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