Information visualization
by Colin Ware · first published 2000
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…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-Inter...…
on “Knolling” ↗…these statements strike our intuition, we can bypass the literary methods in favor of scientific ones. There's an entire body of research on visual design (a great introduction to which is Colin Ware's "Information Visualization") that gets right down to the nitty gritty details of human perception, like eye tracking speed, visual channel capacity, move and scan loops, visual working memory, the relationship between luminance…
on “No to "No UI"” ↗The best (scientifically sound and recent) information about color perception i found is in Colin Ware books : - Information Visualization : perception for design (chapter 4 about color) - Visual Thinking (more accessible).
on “Speaking about color: hue, value, saturation, chroma, shade, tint, tone” ↗