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Directing Your Attention

Magicians · Pickpockets · UX Designers

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Attention researchers now publish alongside magicians, because a good trick is a controlled experiment in what people reliably fail to notice. The only real difference along this row is consent: one asks for your attention, one takes it, one is designing the checkout page.

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