Selective Attention

When users are about to delete something permanently, you could fade everything else and highlight the selected items, using selective attention to prevent mistakes.

Example from

T Mobile

If users pick several goals during sign-up, you could ask which one they want to focus on first, narrowing their selective attention onto a single starting point.

Example from

Rocket Money

While users set preferences, you could try dynamically highlighting (or fading) sample items based on their choices, drawing selective attention to what matches.

Example from

Shop

During an upsell, you could badge the specific feature a user previously trialled, so their selective attention lands on the thing they already care about.

Example from

Sentry

You could offer a toggle that automatically turns on Do Not Disturb when a meditation begins, protecting users' selective attention from outside distractions.

Example from

Waking Up