User/Brain .. both same(
i was reading about the functions of Brain for past few hours. My friend Kailash told me about the article by George A. Miller (1956):
"The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information"
Its an interesting article.. and the way Kailash made it "collaborate" with the UI is another interesting part:
"the user's memory only holds 7 (+2 or -2) elements in the short-term memory.
i was reading about the functions of Brain for past few hours. My friend Kailash told me about the article by George A. Miller (1956): "The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two: Some Limits on Our Capacity for Processing Information"
Its an interesting article.. and the way Kailash made it "collaborate" with the UI is another interesting part:
"the user's memory only holds 7 (+2 or -2) elements in the short-term memory.
if there is a navigational menu on a webpage with over nine
elements, the user loses focus and has to iterate through the menu every time
when looking for an element."
The interface of any program have lots to do with the usability of the same. Say, you made a webpage with lots of links and after a user pass through the links and he/she come to a dead end where there is no link to go back to the home page.. that makes the user a bad impression about your website. Similarly the Windows XP has several things that makes user to hate XP, for example, in XP we usually see " Save, Cancel" but it would be more user friendly and specific if it is "Save, Don't Save" which Microsoft changed in Vista. Making the software or website more user-friendly will help to drive in users . So what was i speaking about?? ah. i forgot !!!!
Talking about brains.. one last thing to show off. heres something interesting that Kamal Singh showed me at http://www.news.com.au :
Complete Story: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html
ps: Copyright of the contents posted here remains with the respective authorized personalsThe interface of any program have lots to do with the usability of the same. Say, you made a webpage with lots of links and after a user pass through the links and he/she come to a dead end where there is no link to go back to the home page.. that makes the user a bad impression about your website. Similarly the Windows XP has several things that makes user to hate XP, for example, in XP we usually see " Save, Cancel" but it would be more user friendly and specific if it is "Save, Don't Save" which Microsoft changed in Vista. Making the software or website more user-friendly will help to drive in users . So what was i speaking about?? ah. i forgot !!!!
Talking about brains.. one last thing to show off. heres something interesting that Kamal Singh showed me at http://www.news.com.au :
" THE Right Brain vs Left Brain test ... do you see the dancer turning clockwise or anti-clockwise?If clockwise, then you use more of the right side of the brain and vice versa.
Complete Story: http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22556281-661,00.html
