Attention
Von Restorff Effect
An item that differs from otherwise similar surrounding items is often more likely to be noticed or remembered.
Psychology, behavioral science, perception, human computer interaction, and usability principles explained for working designers.
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Attention
An item that differs from otherwise similar surrounding items is often more likely to be noticed or remembered.
Interaction
Every meaningful action should produce timely, perceivable feedback that accurately communicates the resulting system state.
Attention
Attention prioritizes some available information for deeper processing while other visible or audible information receives less processing.
Behavior
Interrupted goals may remain mentally active and prompt resumption, but unfinished tasks do not show a reliable universal memory advantage.
Attention
A second target in a rapid stream is often missed when it appears shortly after a first target that receives attention.
Attention
A salient or abrupt event can draw attention away from the current goal, with capture shaped by stimulus properties and the observer’s attentional set.
Attention
Substantial changes can go unnoticed when they occur during a visual interruption, across views, or outside focused attention.
Attention
People can follow one information stream amid competition, while personally relevant unattended material may sometimes capture awareness.
Memory
Accessible memory for newly learned material often declines rapidly at first and more gradually later when there is no effective review or retrieval.
Decision making
In many risky choices, losses relative to a reference point influence value more strongly than comparable gains, with magnitude varying by context.
Perception
Some basic visual features can be detected rapidly across a display before focused inspection of each individual item.
Perception
Detection depends on both sensitivity to signal versus noise and a decision criterion that trades misses against false alarms.
Memory
Learning episodes separated across time often support longer retention than the same practice concentrated into one session.