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I really liked this older blog post about visually mirroring the Great Wave so you see the boatmen first: https://diamantia-kai-skouria.blogspot.com/2011/03/loo
by minikites 5y ago
I really liked this older blog post about visually mirroring the Great Wave so you see the boatmen first: https://diamantia-kai-skouria.blogspot.com/2011/03/looking-at-hokusai-picture.html https://diamantia-kai-skouria.blogspot.com/2011/03/looking-a...
>Your initial focus was no longer on the overwhelming wave. Instead, your automatic visual scanning habits focused you first on the struggling boatmen and their descent into the wave as it begins to tumble over them.
- the_af 5y agoInteresting! I was aware the Japanese (and other cultures) read from right to left, but it never occurred to me that this was also how they visually scanned paintings and images.
- adrianmonk 5y agoI wonder if this also explains something with TikTok. If you want to respond to video, you can use a feature called Duet, and this places the original video and your video side by side. But, to my surprise, it places the original video on the right and the response video on the left. TikTok was apparently launched in China before going international. Maybe to a Chinese audience, this layout is more natural?
- aasasd 5y agoArticles on product internationalization sometimes mention that sloppily translated Western ads tend to do poorly in the Far East—when on the ad pictures a man first grimaces with pain, then takes a pill, then smiles with a contented expression. From left to right.