It seems the yellow fade technique promoted by the folks at 37 signals is inspiring designers. Check out the neat fade out at pub sub (click on the “Enter your keywords here” text area).

Why do this: designers teach us to show transitions to users between state changes. In real life nothing ever changes radically in a millisecond so interfaces should be the same. The visual buffer Matt Web is talking about.

What’s next: instead of designing web pages as “binary” things (this is on or off) we can now have in between states that can be displayed for a controlled amount of time.

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