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The gist: not only do people build mental models to interact with the world, but they also derive such models from the world, and the model becomes a person's
by godDLL 17y ago
The gist: not only do people build mental models to interact with the world, but they also derive such models from the world, and the model becomes a person's understanding of the world's inner workings, and it's complexity. And this is where design in general, industrial design in particular, and UI design in the very particular comes in.
- joezydeco 17y agoThis seems like a rediscovery of Norman's writings on mental models: http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/mental_models.html http://www.interaction-design.org/encyclopedia/mental_models...