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The classic advice here is to break items down into groups of “seven plus or minus two.”
Giles Colborne • Simple and Usable Web, Mobile, and Interaction Design
What is the emotional context for the task?
Julie Dirksen • Design for How People Learn (Voices That Matter)
Design the screen or page so that people can move in their normal reading pattern. Avoid a pattern where people have to bounce back and forth to many parts of the screen to accomplish a task.
Weinschenk Susan • 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter)
Your octopus gets tired if it has to keep switching its focus from one set of brain-links to a completely different one. So try to avoid distraction and task switching.
Barbara Oakley PhD • Learning How to Learn: How to Succeed in School Without Spending All Your Time Studying; A Guide for Kids and Teens
If people perform a series of steps over and over again, the action will become automatic.
Weinschenk Susan • 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People (Voices That Matter)
Checklists: The Key to Smarter and Safer Work
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
1. Cognitive Offloading: Checklists help alleviate cognitive stress by offloading memory tasks to an external tool, allowing you to focus on execution rather than recollection.
2. Error Prevention: Even experts, like doctors and pilots, rely on checklists to avoid basic errors, demo
... See morepeople, they can process only so much information at one time. Another mental process is using up their ability to see the obvious thing that you want them to. This is an important concept to understand when conducting heuristic analyses of your communications. Even small changes to your messages, page layouts, and user interactions can have a sign
... See moreChris Goward • You Should Test That: Conversion Optimization for More Leads, Sales and Profit or The Art and Science of Optimized Marketing
We’re called to act when we know what others have experienced with a product, or we know what they’re doing at a Web site, or we even know what they are doing right now.
Susan M. Weinschenk • Neuro Web Design: What Makes Them Click? (Voices That Matter)
“People get better at regulating their impulses. They learn how to distract themselves from temptations. And once you’ve gotten into that willpower groove, your brain is practiced at helping you focus on a goal.