Tag: psychology
The Magic Number, Psychology and Website User Experience
This is the first post I have managed to type out in months, besides the regular amalgamations of various Twitterspheric streaming that this site has become. It must be because I’ve just read something that pushes my psychology / computer science / internet geek buttons just enough to warrant a little more rambling than the usual delicious tag or tweet. Jakob Nielson has published an article that cites the classic seven plus or minus two of short-term memory capacity (i.e. executive function) in the context of Website User Experience. Ooooh.