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What is included in a narrative, what is left out and the values it embodies are determined by what cognitive scientist and linguist George Lakoff refers to as ‘frames’. These cognitive structures are shaped by our personal and collective histories and allow us to conceptualize and organize what we see (and fail to see) and how we see it. The... See more
Designing Systems Interventions – Transition Design Seminar CMU
First General Fact Worth Remembering: Associations to names are more abstract than associations to pictures.
Barbara Tversky • Mind in Motion
cognitive reference points are larger than themselves; they serve as genres or prototypes.
Barbara Tversky • Mind in Motion
But very few interfaces do a brilliant job of the third need: showing me where I've been and how I got here. We can do it at small scales. Patterns like breadcrumbs help us navigate through website or wiki with lots of subpages, but those don't scale well beyond ~7 steps.
Historical Trails
Gideon Rubin,
Barbara Tversky • Mind in Motion
Diagrams, maps, web pages, information graphics, visual instructions, and technical illustrations all help us to solve problems through a process of visual thinking.
Colin Ware • Visual Thinking: for Design (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Interactive Technologies)
Conceptual metaphorical—
Julie Dirksen • Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter)
We tend to think of objects that are physically connected as part of a group. The connective property typically has a stronger associative value than similar color, size, or shape.