Comments on: Reacting to Visual Cues https://6sigma.com/reacting-to-visual-cues/ Six Sigma Certification and Training Fri, 28 Feb 2025 06:01:40 +0000 hourly 1 By: Mike Hilsabeck https://6sigma.com/reacting-to-visual-cues/#comment-24794 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 15:08:36 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/397/reacting-to-visual-cues#comment-24794 Having lived there for a total of over 11-1/2 years, the yellow line in public places is omnipresent in Japan (and likely other locations). It is there for blind people with a cane to “see” (feel) their path as they are walking on sidewalks and in railway stations to make sure they safely get from point to point.

]]> By: Sean https://6sigma.com/reacting-to-visual-cues/#comment-24793 Wed, 23 May 2007 20:09:43 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/397/reacting-to-visual-cues#comment-24793 When you spend any time at all pondering website usability, you realize that the entire web presentation is about getting the user to respond to visual cues. Click here for a menu, click here to submit your search query. This text is a link, this isn’t. We’re programmed to respond to red as danger / caution / stop. On a subconscious level, we’re programmed to respond to combinations of red, yellow, and orange with hunger. If you’ve never heard this before, look at the logos for McDonalds, Wendy’s, Burger King, KFC, etc. Wide, white bars across a pedestrian walk-way tell us where to cross, and if you watch someone start away from the bars, they’ll gravitate towards them by the time they reach the other side. We are SO programmed to respond to our environmental visual cues, it’s hard to recognize where they all are in our daily lives. I’d love to be part of a social experiment where we could change all the visual cues and see how people make mistakes and then re-learn their environment….

]]> By: SB https://6sigma.com/reacting-to-visual-cues/#comment-24792 Wed, 23 May 2007 16:05:04 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/397/reacting-to-visual-cues#comment-24792 Look closely at the yellow “line” – it’s meant to be the yellow brick road from Wizard of Oz, obviously!! Possibly to remind people they aren’t in Kansas anymore 🙂

Cheers.

p.s. Love your blog.

]]> By: rob thompson https://6sigma.com/reacting-to-visual-cues/#comment-24791 Wed, 23 May 2007 11:59:59 +0000 https://opexlearning.com/resources/397/reacting-to-visual-cues#comment-24791 What a fantastic piece of visual management. As a keen runner it reminds me of the white line I follow on marathons (http://tinyurl.com/ytowxc). Once I go into the running zone I tend to focus on the next 10 meters in front of me and stick to the line religiously. Just as well really; my sense of direction is lousy!

Rob

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