Design principle based on the fact that people are able to recognize things more easily than recall them from memory.
This is likely because encountering that information triggers associations immediately: Visual representations trigger associations
Recalling something takes more work. Recognition happens with good accuracy even long after first encoding some information, because Information encoded in long-term memory are remembered for a very long time.
Tags: design psychology
ID: 2021-1122-0716
References:
People have a very good long-term memory. Once an information passes the previous bottelnecks of attention and working memory, and is…
Retrieving information is essentialy "re-igniting the neural pathways that were active at the moment of the original experience." Because of…
If you want to discuss this note, send me a message on Twitter.