Jef Raskin’s concept of Locus of Attention brings about some interesting points about studies that have been done on human cognitive limits. First of all, it was novel to me to think about attention spatially (as a field) rather than as a process or even as a discrete object (a chunk in the brain). The […]
Choices.
The major reason I selected this design over my other sketches was to keep the amount of information down to a minimum. It was important to me to give the user an ability, over time, to take short cuts and to be able to ‘glance’ at the clock, the way a sighted user can quickly […]
Here are some preliminary notes and sketches that I did for the clock assignment.
Thoughts:
First of all, the convenient thing about vision and ’seeing’ something is that there is a ‘gestalt’ effect — One can get a quick overall glance and learn over time how to get a lot of information at one moment. I wanted […]