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Life & fun · September 20, 2013

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UI Concept – Focus Transition

UI Concept – Focus Transition launched on September 20, 2013 with 388 votes, #2 of 422 launches that month and more than 99% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 13 years on.

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UI Concept – Focus Transition is a life and fun tool that demonstrates an interface design concept for managing attention and workflow transitions. Created and shared on the web, it presents a visual or interactive approach to how users might shift focus between different tasks or elements. The project showcases design thinking around user experience and attention management.

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Keyboard navigation has a major downside: it’s not clear where the focus moves upon pressing the Tab key. Animation makes the transition more apparent. Flying Focus creates an element that is moving when the focus event happens. outline: 5px auto -webkit-focus-ring-color makes the element look like it has a focus. It only works in Safari and Chrome. Previously, I actually focused on the moving element. It affected focus and blur events on web pages, making some dropdown menus unusable. Faking the focus solves the problem. Flying Focus is available as a standalone JS file that you can include on your website. Chrome and Safari extensions enable Flying Focus on all websites. It’s all free and…from n12v.com

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