Sometimes the littlest features have the biggest impact.
Some small tweak can vastly enhance the user experience.
Consider, for example, a small but powerful technology:
Why do we indent the eCFR?
Hey, the government doesn’t indent their version?
Why do we?
There are reasons.
In a very complex document, indents help you
read better;
see better;
understand better.
Indents
guide the eye
make visible
the shape of the ideas
and the structure
behind the text.
It’s like in school when they taught you to outline.
(Remember outlines?
(Remember school??))
They taught you to put things in an outline format:
I.
A.
1.
a.
etc.
To help you understand
the structure
of the ideas
you were outlining.
The ECFR has a hierarchical structure.
Its natural, inherent structure contains sections
and subsections.
By laying those out visually
we help guide not only
your eye
but also
your mind.
