alt Hacker NewsHilarious: I looked at first two examples on the page, showing a menu and contextual menu, and I saw no problem. Icons? What icons?
That's when I realized that, much like advertisements on a web page, my brain had utterly filtered them out.
Hilarious: I looked at first two examples on the page, showing a menu and contextual menu, and I saw no problem. Icons? What icons?
That's when I realized that, much like advertisements on a web page, my brain had utterly filtered them out.
My brain first started doing this with online ads as well.
The habit has adapted and evolved very strongly with the amount of exercise it gets from UIs, textbooks, signage, and basically every other visual medium possible these days. It has actually become a problem with how often I overlook important information due to it being situated in a "nothing useful will ever be here" zone. But it's difficult to consciously control that instinct when it's correct 99.999% of the time.