{"id":397,"date":"2007-05-22T06:04:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-22T13:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/397\/reacting-to-visual-cues"},"modified":"2016-11-14T04:15:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T09:15:35","slug":"reacting-to-visual-cues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/reacting-to-visual-cues\/397\/","title":{"rendered":"Reacting to Visual Cues"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"a296a24fa2fc69ef5487857f02f111e8\" data-index=\"9\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- Single Post readerboard -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:728px;height:90px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8207522353004717\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1144967431\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Toyota Production System makes effective use of visual cues to mark location in time and space, boundaries, and to answer the question &#8220;How am I doing&#8221; in a production setting.\u00a0 Visual Cues are a simple but effective mechanism. <a title=\"visual cues are elegant\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/interview-with-matthew-may-on-elegance-subtraction-lean\/14638\/\">Visual Cues\u00a0are incredibly elegant and simple<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<p>The assumption &#8212; and, what empirical evidence supports &#8212; is that we react automatically to objects and spaces that we encounter.\u00a0 The picture below is taken from the book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/0811847756?ie=UTF8&amp;tag=sixsigma09-20&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=0811847756\" target=\"_blank\">Thoughtless Acts?: Observations on Intuitive Design<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none  ! important; margin: 0px ! important;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=sixsigma09-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=0811847756\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/> &#8212; a highly recommended book:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-9839 aligncenter\" title=\"humane-interface-facility-design\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/humane-interface-facility-design.jpg\" alt=\"facility design, visual design\" width=\"351\" height=\"407\" srcset=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/humane-interface-facility-design.jpg 351w, https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/05\/humane-interface-facility-design-258x300.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><\/div>\n<p>Was the yellow line designed to encourage travelers to walk on its path?\u00a0 Was this an unintended consequence?\u00a0 In either case, we learn something substantial from the picture: people react to and adjust to their surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>What types of visual cues cause you to react?\u00a0 What types of visual cues could you design that encourage the desired reaction from your audience?<\/p>\n<p>More articles on <a title=\"ethnography\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.opexlearning.com\/resources\/service-design-customer-experience\/\">Genchi Genbutsu and Ethnography<\/a>?<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Toyota Production System makes effective use of visual cues to mark location in time and space, boundaries, and to answer the question &#8220;How am I doing&#8221; in a production setting.\u00a0 Visual Cues are a simple but effective mechanism. 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