If you’re interested in improving the positive appeal of your visual communications, then you may want to understand how to make them more fluent.
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Brainy Stuff
We humans are at the mercy of a phenomenon called the split-attention effect. Many conventional information graphics, animations, visualizations and multimedia presentations demand that viewers simultaneously split their attention between divergent sources of information.
We quickly decode a well-designed icon, but how can we design or select the most effective one for a particular purpose? This article answers that question and questions you didn’t know you had.
A few months ago I exchanged books with someone who is also very interested in brain science. In fact, she calls herself ‘the brain lady.’ Susan Weinschenk, Ph.D, recently wrote Neuro Web Design: What makes them click, which should be of interest to those involved in web strategy and design and really, to anyone interested [...]
“If memory is the way people keep telling themselves their stories, then photographs are one of the ways people keep those stories alive.” —
Maryanne Garry and Matthew P. Gerrie
A seismic shift in both camera technology and cultural rituals has changed the conventional meaning of the personal photograph. Back in the days of analog cameras, [...]
A caricature is defined as a portrait that exaggerates the essence of a person to create an easily identifiable visual likeness. The question is, why do we quickly recognize a well-drawn caricature of a famous person, even though it is clearly not accurate?
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