Eye Tracking

Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. A method of measuring where people's eyes move and focus while they look at screens, interfaces, or physical environments. In design culture eye tracking is used to understand attention, scanning behavior, and what users actually notice versus what teams assume they notice.

    In plain English: A technique for measuring where people look.

    Example: "The eye tracking study showed that users never even saw the warning banner the team had considered impossible to miss."

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