Design experience Comparison: Arabic numerals and Chinese numeral description

15 minutes, 15 minutes.

Semantically, the two are no different. But from the eye effect, 15 minutes more intuitive.

People tend to be more sensitive to Arabic numerals, it should be Arabic numerals in the brain faster operation,

Just imagine that when we were young, we learned to read from 123, and the impression of numbers was earlier than words, so the human brain was more sensitive to Arabic numerals than words.

When we are shopping, we often see business promotions discount messages. Try to compare the following two words

50 percent 50 percent

Which one looks more attractive? Of course it's 50 percent.

So when there are numbers and words in a row, we try to get the numbers to attract attention and deepen the impression of the viewer.

But are all the places to use numbers? To give an example, we look at the results of different words in Baidu search:

Keyword: 10 mins http://www.baidu.com/s?wd=%CA%AE%B7%D6%D6%D3

Keyword:10 minutes http://www.baidu.com/s?wd=10%B7%D6%D6%D3

Semantics, but get a completely different result, if you want to ask, which kind of good, 10 minutes or 10 minutes?

I think there may not be a definite answer at all.

Let's assume, if you use pinyin Input method, to enter 10 minutes, is not at least to knock the keyboard three keys on it,

If you enter 10 minutes, it is possible that you use the keyboard to the right number of keys to enter 10, and then enter a text minute, it is possible to use the keyboard on the number of keys to enter 10, and then enter the text minutes, but either way, at least four keystrokes to play out,

Interesting, the average user if want to search for 10 minutes related things, what kind of?

I don't have the statistics, so I can't really figure it out. It seems that data mining is quite useful. ）

But to be sure, most people use 15 minutes compared to 15 minutes and 15 minutes.

As for 10 minutes, one hour and the like, user behavior is convenient to combine data analysis to get the conclusion ~

I don't know if this is too much detail to discuss.

When we want to "highlight" some of the information, our most common method is to make it " different ". For example, change its color, let it become thicker, bigger and so on. And Chinese characters is the character, which determines that most Chinese characters look similar to the shape, so, a bunch of Chinese characters together, each Chinese character "difference" is smaller. And the Arabic numeral itself is not a character, so I think, say to "50 percent" looks more attractive than "50 percent", the key is not that we are small when the first contact with the numbers or contact Chinese characters, but:

1, we usually use the Chinese characters, so Chinese characters for us, is accustomed to.

2, the number itself compared to our "accustomed to" Chinese characters, there are differences. In other words , it is the "difference" that attracts us.