Comments on: UX Superpowers Revealed: “UX Vision”

By: Toronto Web Design

Toronto Web Design — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 04:36:36 +0000

Agreed Pretty old technique used around the world…You can usually understand design with a person viewing the site much better with simple technique like this. I’ve been to pages where I can feel an emotional state created by seeing it using this technique.

By: UX Hero

UX Hero — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 05:30:20 +0000

Thanks Andrew, good stuff.

By: Andrew Schechterman, PhD

Andrew Schechterman, PhD — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:06:38 +0000

Also: http://extremepresentation.typepad.com/blog/2006/10/36_slides_that_.html

By: UX Hero

UX Hero — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:44:27 +0000

Check out this post on the Trix cereal rabbit by BlogLess. I don’t even like Trix, but in an aisle full of chaos I’d be drawn to it because it’s an oasis of calm.

By: Nick Finck

Nick Finck — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:41:50 +0000

I always wondered how well an ad with lots and lots of white space and simple message would preform in the middle of downtown Tokyo for example. Peace among the chaos.

By: UX Hero

UX Hero — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:22:56 +0000

Great point Nick. Web designers are getting older, and let’s hope wiser. When the web was new it was easy to forget that we still needed whitespace, typography, and good layout in our excitement about a new medium.

By: UX Hero

UX Hero — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:11:27 +0000

The older I get the more I cast aside shiny tech tools in favor of pencils, paper, and even *taking a walk* to solve design problems.

By: Nick Finck

Nick Finck — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:01:44 +0000

Awesome, my site passes the squint test. I remember my art teacher telling us to do the same thing for our drawings as well. As we get old we several of us will be more and more blind so these considerations are important.

Another change in web design that i am seeing is the base font size in our designs seems to be increasing more and more. I think this is largely due to the fact that most web designers are still pretty young on average but just now beginning to move into the next checkbox on customer surveys and such (next age bracket). Very interesting.

Cheers,
- Nick

By: Stefanos Karagos

Stefanos Karagos — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 13:33:13 +0000

Nice, this is a very old technique used from off-line publishers around the world…

By: UX Hero

UX Hero — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 06:03:52 +0000

Humans need novelty. We become “blind” when we sit in the same place for too long. Getting up, moving around, changing perspective, all good no matter what your job.

By: Percy

Percy — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 19:06:39 +0000

Really interesting exercise. I could identify 4 immediately and then once I looked again, 2 more. I know I’ve got one more but it’s more due to guesswork than anything.

Can you tell what they do if you didn’t know from before? I don’t really know if I could.

I am not sure what you mean by “headlines”. Are you referring to the titles / names of the websites? If so, I could make out 3 easily and 1 because I know about the site.

Most clickable: Don’t have a clue.

This concept reminded me of when I used to get documents that I’d written reviewed by my manager. As soon as I was not directly in front of the screen but at the side, I’d invariably find a mistake that I’d missed. I guess “stepping back” can give you a different perspective. I’d never thought about applying it to evaluate websites though.