100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People, 2nd Edition

2 Peripheral Vision is used more than Central Vision to get the Gist of what you See

You have two types of vision: central and peripheral. Central vision is what you use to look at things directly and to see details. Peripheral vision encompasses the rest of the visual field—areas that are visible but that you’re not looking at directly. Being able to see things out of the corner of your eye is certainly useful, but research from Kansas State University shows that peripheral vision is more important in understanding the world around us than most people realize. It seems that we get information on what type of scene we’re looking at from our peripheral vision.

Why movement on a screen is so annoying

People can’t help but notice movement in ...