A quick trick to test your site's visual hierarchy

In this article, Chris Bank of UXPin – the wireframing & prototyping app – explains how to use the Blur Technique. For analysis of UI examples from over 33 companies, check out the free ebook Web UI Best Practices.

In the first two articles in this series, How the human eye reads a website and 4 key ways to create visual hierarchy, I examined how to create the appropriate visual hierarchy in your web UI design.

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