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by hungryhobbit 50 days ago
I liked the earlier page in this series, but this one feels kind of half-assed. Consider many of the first entries, like this one:

"Cognitive Bias - A systematic error of thinking or rationality in judgment that influence our perception"

That's not a law! It's barely even a useful concept in the form presented here!

Instead of being a useful collection of rules a UI designer/dev can apply, this just feels like the author picked some terms, looked up their definition in the dictionary, and threw it all together so he could sell posters.

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this. It's not really anything. I was interested in "chunking" but learned nothing here. There are no examples, no actual explanation of how to apply the laws or what breaks the laws, its just a general description. It could be a bullet point list and hold about as much information.
> There are no examples,

Yea, not a great decision to exclude visual examples when talking about the UI. It's too subjective to my non-designer brain to be even remotely useful.