Nikolaus Hafermaas made an interesting observation about
Nikolaus Hafermaas made an interesting observation about visual design. If you’ve a visual designer, you’re working with a rapidly depleting finite resource: people’s personal attention.
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Reader comments
Tom M.Sep 15, 2005 at 5:57PM
Meanwhile, you're looking for someone to iChat with during the opening speaker. Rapidly depleting, to be sure :)
AOSep 15, 2005 at 6:00PM
I like to micropost commenting. Very nice.
LukasSep 15, 2005 at 6:51PM
There's a definite non-linear distribution in effect here. Most stuff in my visual field just gets glanced at ... but how much time have all of us spent absorbing, say, the kottke.org design?
poo poo pantsSep 15, 2005 at 8:24PM
In a similar vein, I would submit the following:
If you've a user experience designer, you're working with a rapidly depleting finite resource: people's patience.
Iain HamiltonSep 15, 2005 at 9:02PM
In the end, we're all working with one big rapidly depleting resource: time. Make the most of it!
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