F-pattern(thoughts)

F-pattern and container-free are some more patterns I would like to think on.

F-pattern is a very simple pattern .I imagine its something that news website probably used in the beginning. Its kind of what every website whose purpose would be to serve information would follow.

(Although I have news website following different patterns ,magazine ).F-pattern is obvious and does not require much thinking.Although Its best not start from images from the right side. Some text and then maybe a image relevant. Perhaps avoiding videos would be good since we want to encourage users to go below. (Atleast in that page). But i suppose there are some drawbacks to F-patterns. As long as too much information is not given it can be overcome but that will make each information item look bland(for example we could reduce a news item to only its heading but obviously no one will like that). I suppose that is why we may say that magazine pattern can be a good choice for newspaper websites.

Personally I don't like the magazine pattern. Mostly because most websites like to put text on images .....big images. Its very distracting. I prefer that the text should on the top on a separate (but can be combined with the image) division. But I suppose I can understand that such arrangement is to encourage purposeless or random browsing....I think actual magazines can benefit immensely from such a format when they are providing a service rather than deploying a book....But I suppose that would be expensive. But then again amazon follows such a policy on its website.  I think youtube is a combination of grid plus magazine format.