Perception

Psychophysics

• Just-noticeable difference
• http://www.jnd.org/
• Weber's law and thresholds
• Weber–Fechner law
• Stevens's power law

Stevens' power law

Appearance compensation

• Perceptual Scaling of Map Symbols

Colors

• Blender Guru: Understanding Color
• Beginning Graphic Design: color
• This study called "Value-Suppressing Uncertainty Palettes" from UW Interactive Data Lab is an interesting example of exploiting the human color perception.
• Physics Girl: Does this look white to you?
• A Better Default Colormap for Matplotlib | SciPy 2015 | Nathaniel Smith and Stéfan van der Walt
• Introducing makeitpop, a tool to perceptually warp your data!
• Value-Suppressing Uncertainty Palettes

Pre-attentive processing

• Christopher Healey: Perception in Visualization

Further readings

• Colin Ware, Visual Thinking: for Design
• M. Agrawala, W. Li, and F. Berthouzoz, Design principles for visual communication
• Bang Wong, from "Points of View" (they are very short columns)
• Color coding
• Design of data figures
• Salience
• Gestalt principles (Part 1)
• Avoiding color
• 39 studies about human perception in 30 minutes
• Crowdsourcing Graphical Perception: Using Mechanical Turk to Assess Visualization Design