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It seems that it's really easy to find stuff. Like in this [1] picture, it's really clear where the sledge hammer is, but if things were arranged randomly it wo
by snissn 9y ago
It seems that it's really easy to find stuff. Like in this [1] picture, it's really clear where the sledge hammer is, but if things were arranged randomly it would be more difficult
1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knolling#/media/File:Ten_Bullets_II.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knolling#/media/File:Ten_Bulle...
- dwringer 9y agoThat seems like a very interesting and useful application of theories in pre-attentive processing. When everything is aligned to the same orientation then the attribute of orientation may become almost effortless to perceive and cognitive resources can be devoted to more targeted feature recognition. There is a section of chapter 5 in the book "Information Visualization: Perception for Design" by Colin Ware [1] called "preattentive processing and ease of search" that goes into nice detail on considerations such as this. (See also [2]) [1] https://www.amazon.com/Information-Visualization-Third-Interactive-Technologies/dp/0123814642 https://www.amazon.com/Information-Visualization-Third-Inter... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-attentive_processing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre-attentive_processing
- eeZah7Ux 9y agoSorting by shape and size instead of more abstract aspects like function, type, usage frequency is inefficient.
- kmill 9y agoThat image was removed from Wikipedia due to copyright violations, but the "How to knoll" bullets are the first image in https://www.curbed.com/2016/7/18/12215158/always-be-knolling-tom-sachs-knoll https://www.curbed.com/2016/7/18/12215158/always-be-knolling...