Application of Color Illusion in Design

Designers have successfully explored and exploited color illusion applied in various designs. Following are some of the examples of design where the illusion is applied to exploit human eye’s deficiency in advantage for product design.

Interestingly many of us are not aware of the way our eyes function. ‘Blind Spot’ is experienced by all of us but not able to understand the scientific reasons. Following are the example that would explain the the ‘blind spot’ phenomenon.

Blind Spot and the "Filling-in" phenomenon

(Ref. http://www.personal.kent.edu/~rmuhamma/OpticalIllusion/illusion.html ; June 5, 2012)

Each of eyes contains an area that has no photoreceptors because it is occupied by the optic nerve. This area is known blind spot. These areas are on opposite sides of visual field. Following exercise is isolating the blind spot.