„A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention“
– Herbert A. Simon. Cognitive psychologist, economist (and a pioneer in AI)
See also „There is no “intuitive” design, #2„
Schlagwort: cognition
The science of color perception
This video greatly explains color vision resp. trichromacy theory:
On visual representations
„Whenever mental transformations are necessary in order to make comparisons of the configurations, graphic representation presents the viewer with a difficult task.“
Norman, Donald A. (1993): Things that make us smart: defending human attributes in the age of the machine, 59
Image: taken from Stephen Fews‘ Perceptual Edge, Visual Business Intelligence Newsletter, August 2007 (recommended read!)