Your Eyes Do Trick You (Attention Blindness)

The following experiment shows how your eyes can trick you. The phenomena is called attention blindness, which is both scary and true.

Awareness Economy at Big Design Conference 2011

At the Big Design Conference 2011, Taylor Cowan and I will be talking about the impact of technology, gaming, and social interfaces have greatly impacted your own awareness economy. In this talk, we will explain how you have certain levels of awareness, how you can build design strategies to support a level of awareness, and how some applications are already building awareness into their designs.

Taylor and I believe that one of the biggest challenges facing users (and designer) is the Awareness Economy.  You can only process a certain amount of information at any given moment.  We will talk about how today;s connected, tech savvy user needs to be made aware of changes in their online world.