How to Reduce Digital Fatigue in Interfaces
This article will be useful for product designers who work on complex interfaces, long forms, onboarding flows, financial products, and services where users need to make decisions.
Digital fatigue is a state where the user generally understands what to do, but the interface takes too much attention and energy. They see too many buttons, long screens, dense text, equally important blocks, and many options. At some point, they stop reading carefully. They start scrolling, skipping important information, clicking randomly, or closing the product.
It is important to understand: users do not always leave because the product is bad. Often, they leave because the path to the result feels too exhausting.
Let’s look at what causes digital fatigue and how to reduce it.
Why users get confused.
One of the main reasons is the lack of visual priority. For example, imagine a marketplace screen where the user sees banners, product cards,...
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