Search Patterns: Design for Discovery
by Peter Morville and Jeffery Callender
An excerpt from Chapter One, Pattern Recognition
“The future isn’t just unwritten—it’s unsearched.” - Bruce Sterling
In astronomy, averted vision is the art of seeing distant objects by looking to their periphery. It works by shifting responsibility from cones, which sense color and fine detail, to rods, which detect motion and help us to juggle, play chess, and see in the dark. This form of peripheral vision can be practiced. Observers often report a gain of three to four magnitudes. It’s a powerful reminder that sometimes we must look away to see. Read more >
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