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The Café Wall Illusion in a Bar Chart

Robert Kosara / June 30, 2016

The Café Wall Illusion in a Bar Chart

The Café Wall Illusion makes you to see perfectly parallel lines as being at an angle. It’s a curiosity and a cool perceptual illusion – except when it shows up in a bar chart, as it did in this example. [Read more…] about The Café Wall Illusion in a Bar Chart

Affordances

Robert Kosara / December 2, 2012

Affordances

How do we know what we can do with things in the world or in user interfaces? What makes us push buttons, flip switches, or pick up objects that fit our hands? This guidance comes from affordances, a clever and intuitive theory that has been around for decades but is often misunderstood. [Read more…] about Affordances

Robert Kosara / November 20, 2011

You Only See Colors You Can Name

While color is a purely visual phenomenon, the way we see color is not only a matter of our visual systems. It is well known that we are faster in telling colors apart that have different names, but do the names determine the colors or the colors the names? Recent work shows that language has a stronger influence than previously thought.

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