While the article touches on some great points I think there can actually be a balance when displaying certain types of information. Like in reporting interfac

While the article touches on some great points I think there can actually be a balance when displaying certain types of information. Like in reporting interfaces it's easier to highlight the data that you know the user is going to be looking at consistently - it helps with moving through the document as well as keeping your place. Sometimes information isn't required but if the user were wanting to go back and verify that information or use it to calculate something else they could do so easily (generally in my designs whenever I make something with less contrast I will also add an action for on focus/hover the item fades back in if the user may require that data more but still not as much as the main bits and pieces). Places that this doesn't work great are articles and journals, big paragraphs of text (such as comments). Balance, and the right use can make this technique useful in web page design but the author is very correct in that the vast majority doesn't understand the proper use and balance. For we are not artists nor editor-in-chiefs so to say. edit Should note that the reporting interfaces he is displaying do not do this well at all.