Hide your hyper-links, or, dealing with depth-first syndrome

This post is published externally at https://medium.com/@MrJamesFisher/hide-those-hyper-links-to-boost-your-readership-6f19c2bddff2.

Like so many of us, I suffer from a neurological disorder known as depth-first syndrome. The symptoms include an inability to complete tasks, and frequent episodes of transient global amnesia. Those of us with this affliction have an instinctual attraction to hyper-links. The symptoms are brought on by the presence of blue text, or underlining, or even any slight typographical abnormality indicative of the presence of a link. Sufferers of DFS describe the experience as similar to itching: the link is an irritant, and the itch only gets steadily worse, until the sufferer finally gives in to the primitive desire to scratch, the unreasonable desire to … click.

Tagged #depth-first-syndrome, #links, #distraction-free-mode, #focus, #writing, #web, #design.

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