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Who profits from attention, how focus becomes commodity, and what happens to thinking when presence is sold by the millisecond

Attention Gradients: Visual Focus Management How can visual design guide different types of attention? This experiment explores CSS techniques for managing reader focus through gradients, opacity effects, and dynamic highlighting. Rather than presenting text as uniformly important, these techniques create visual hierarchies that support different reading modes. The Experiment Try different attention modes on the text below. Each mode uses visual techniques to support different reading goals: focus (finding key insights), overview (understanding structure), reading (optimal comprehension), and scan (rapid information extraction).

Keyboard navigation becomes collaborative drawing. Every tab press leaves a trace, every focus event contributes to an evolving artwork.