Stack of Cards
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Papernet Design Axiom - Keep the focus on the outside world
It is easier to context-switch between a static printed medium and your surroundings, than it is to do so between your surroundings and the attention-consuming virtual world of the smartphone display.
Another way of saying this is that paper’s “borders” seem softer.
Both paper reading material and a phone, however, are absorbing, so the most jarring context switch is to jump back and forth between the two.
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Papernet Design Axiom - When I print, I am saying something about the document
Why is it that my web browser doesn’t tag the pages I print? Why don’t Word or Illustrator mark a milestone in a document when you print it?
It’s like dealing with someone incapable of following unspoken social cues.
