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I'm sorry you hate the avatar! I get lots of mixed feedback about it, but overall the feedback has been positive. I accept that I can't make everyone happy unfo
by beekums 10y ago
I'm sorry you hate the avatar! I get lots of mixed feedback about it, but overall the feedback has been positive. I accept that I can't make everyone happy unfortunately.
I am trying to avoid walls of text, but I think it is an unfair statement to say that people don't like to read. People are reading the same amount of text regardless of whether pictures exist or not.
Unfortunately, I can't remember the name of the book, but there's one on brain science that discusses how people process text. Letters are still images as far as our eyes and brain are concerned. There's an extra processing step to turn one type of image (letters) into another type of image (what the letters are describing). This is exhausting and throwing in images act as "taking a break" even if that break is only a second or two.
- satysin 10y agoJust wanted to say I really liked the little cartoons. Do you do them all yourself?
- beekums 10y agoI wish I was that talented. One of my friends is an incredible artist and I asked her to make those for me.
- gknoy 10y agoI'd like to chime in and agree -- the cartoon dudes are mildly amusing. It might be disconcerting that they are so large, but then I ended up un-zooming most of the page, so it might just be PEBCAK at my desk. ;)
- pfarnsworth 10y agoI hate the cartoons too. There's something very condescending about them, smattered throughout your blog post.
- mpfundstein 10y agodito! the cartoon dude is terrible... made me not read the post.
- hartator 10y agoIt can be annedoctic, but same here!
- BWStearns 10y agoI initially thought "cartoon dude is condescending!" Then my brain immediately said "lighten up Francis" and now I like cartoon dude.
- majewsky 10y agoI can see the intention, but it had the exact opposite effect for me. My eyes were drawn to these images like some blinking ad banner, and I got annoyed about how it draws my attention away from the content.