Mind Hacking Visual Transitions

We experience it everyday. While talking with a friend at a park someone throws a frisbee to another person in the background. Without trying you notice this change of motion even though you are not looking directly at it. You can thank the superior colliculus for this little attention interruption.As the authors describe it this region of the brain is not very sophisticated. But it does a good job of telling you to pay attention because something may be coming at you. You aren't sure what it is but you had better pay attention to it.

Looks Good Works Well: Mind Hacking Visual Transitions

Paying Attention (or Not) to the Flickr Daily Zeitgeist

You don't read a screenful of text in a completely voluntary way. You're constantly tugged all over the page by various factors, including how your eyes jump around, what some submodule of your brain thinks is important to look at next instead of the words, and so on.Click here to find out more!If we know about these factors, we can make web pages easier to read by making other elements on the screen less distracting.In this article, we'll take a look at a fairly common online widget and talk about where it works and where it doesn't work, in terms of visual attention and its design objectives. We'll use the Flickr Daily Zeitgeist as our example.

O'Reilly Network -- Paying Attention (or Not) to the Flickr Daily Zeitgeist

technorati tags:information+architecture, flickr, attention, fading+effects

What is a "Technosocial Architect"

People who understand the social interactions between people and the technologies they use to mediate the interactions need to understand the focus is on the social interactions between people and the relationship that technology plays. It is in a sense being a technosocial architect

Technosocial Architect :: Off the Top :: vanderwal.net

A long article explaining the various elements of being a "Technosocial Architect"

technorati tags:information+architecture, technosocial+architect

T-Model for Interaction Design

Dan Saffer just published his model for the relationships between Interaction Design (IxD) and the fields around it

[BEEP]: Dan Saffer's T-Model for Interaction Design

technorati tags:interaction+design, information+architecture

Eyetracking Web Forms

Design research is quickly becoming the theme of the month here on Functioning Form. Following my discussions with Steve Portigal about ethnography and an analysis of granular bucket testing, Matteo Penzo has published an informative article on UXmatters that analyzes my Web Application Form Design article with eyetracking software.

Functioning Form - Eyetracking Web Forms

technorati tags:ia, information+architecture, web+forms, eyetracking