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I've recently been finding analogies quite helpful when explaining something to clients. Something I'm explaining on a regular basis is that causing users to stop and pause to think about something can seem quite negligible (sometimes it can just be a half of a second pause), but when confronted with multiple instances of these pauses they can add up and amount to a bad user experience.
Does anyone have a good analogy for this? Any ideas welcome!
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I've recently been finding analogies quite helpful when explaining something to clients. Something I'm explaining on a regular basis is that causing users to stop and pause to think about something can seem quite negligible (sometimes it can just be a half of a second pause), but when confronted with multiple instances of these pauses they can add up and amount to a bad user experience.
Does anyone have a good analogy for this? Any ideas welcome!
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I've recently been finding analogies quite helpful when explaining something to clients. Something I'm explaining on a regular basis is that causing users to stop and pause to think about something can seem quite negligible (sometimes it can just be a half of a second pause), but when confronted with multiple instances of these pauses they can add up and amount to a bad user experience.
Does anyone have a good analogy for this? Any ideas welcome!
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I've recently been finding analogies quite helpful when explaining something to clients. Something I'm explaining on a regular basis is that causing users to stop and pause to think about something can seem quite negligible (sometimes it can just be a half of a second pause), but when confronted with multiple instances of these pauses they can add up and amount to a bad user experience.
Does anyone have a good analogy for this? Any ideas welcome!
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A good analogy for this can be found in this article from nngroup:
Most computer users have learned that running too many programs at
the same time can slow down or even crash the machine. We work around
these limitations by closing programs when we aren't using them.
Just like computers, human brains have a limited amount of processing
power.
Causing users to pause several times to think about what they are doing add to their cognitive load, decreasing their performance.
answered 1 hour ago
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This is a great one!
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Death by meeting ☠️
The best analogy I've come up with for office-dwellers is meetings. Both the scheduled and unscheduled variety apply, but the latter is the best parallel.
There's nothing more disruptive to productive workers than the constant task-switching of a meeting-culture office. Listen to a sad little story with me …
You have some big stuff on your list today
You put on your headphones and settle in
You pick the next problem or task from your list
You're really going to accomplish something today!
💥
A meeting reminder pops up on your screen
All that hard work is flushed 🚽
Shuffle off to the conference room on floor 5
Spend the next hour wrapping your head around a totally new issue
One of the attendees pulls you aside to talk about follow-up
You talk for another 10 or 15 minutes
You roll back to your desk over an hour later
Just the thought of getting your head back in the zone exhausts you
15 minutes later you're back in your groove 🛫
An exec drops by to chat about something that's been on his mind 🛬
😞
Interrupting your user's workflow is a lot like that in a little microcosm.
answered 45 mins ago
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A good analogy for this can be found in this article from nngroup:
Most computer users have learned that running too many programs at
the same time can slow down or even crash the machine. We work around
these limitations by closing programs when we aren't using them.
Just like computers, human brains have a limited amount of processing
power.
Causing users to pause several times to think about what they are doing add to their cognitive load, decreasing their performance.
answered 1 hour ago
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564312
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This is a great one!
– Nicolas Hung
1 hour ago
add a comment |
A good analogy for this can be found in this article from nngroup:
Most computer users have learned that running too many programs at
the same time can slow down or even crash the machine. We work around
these limitations by closing programs when we aren't using them.
Just like computers, human brains have a limited amount of processing
power.
Causing users to pause several times to think about what they are doing add to their cognitive load, decreasing their performance.
answered 1 hour ago
Aline
564312
1
This is a great one!
– Nicolas Hung
1 hour ago
add a comment |
A good analogy for this can be found in this article from nngroup:
Most computer users have learned that running too many programs at
the same time can slow down or even crash the machine. We work around
these limitations by closing programs when we aren't using them.
Just like computers, human brains have a limited amount of processing
power.
Causing users to pause several times to think about what they are doing add to their cognitive load, decreasing their performance.
answered 1 hour ago
Aline
564312
A good analogy for this can be found in this article from nngroup:
Most computer users have learned that running too many programs at
the same time can slow down or even crash the machine. We work around
these limitations by closing programs when we aren't using them.
Just like computers, human brains have a limited amount of processing
power.
Causing users to pause several times to think about what they are doing add to their cognitive load, decreasing their performance.
answered 1 hour ago
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Death by meeting ☠️
The best analogy I've come up with for office-dwellers is meetings. Both the scheduled and unscheduled variety apply, but the latter is the best parallel.
There's nothing more disruptive to productive workers than the constant task-switching of a meeting-culture office. Listen to a sad little story with me …
You have some big stuff on your list today
You put on your headphones and settle in
You pick the next problem or task from your list
You're really going to accomplish something today!
💥
A meeting reminder pops up on your screen
All that hard work is flushed 🚽
Shuffle off to the conference room on floor 5
Spend the next hour wrapping your head around a totally new issue
One of the attendees pulls you aside to talk about follow-up
You talk for another 10 or 15 minutes
You roll back to your desk over an hour later
Just the thought of getting your head back in the zone exhausts you
15 minutes later you're back in your groove 🛫
An exec drops by to chat about something that's been on his mind 🛬
😞
Interrupting your user's workflow is a lot like that in a little microcosm.
answered 45 mins ago
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Death by meeting ☠️
The best analogy I've come up with for office-dwellers is meetings. Both the scheduled and unscheduled variety apply, but the latter is the best parallel.
There's nothing more disruptive to productive workers than the constant task-switching of a meeting-culture office. Listen to a sad little story with me …
You have some big stuff on your list today
You put on your headphones and settle in
You pick the next problem or task from your list
You're really going to accomplish something today!
💥
A meeting reminder pops up on your screen
All that hard work is flushed 🚽
Shuffle off to the conference room on floor 5
Spend the next hour wrapping your head around a totally new issue
One of the attendees pulls you aside to talk about follow-up
You talk for another 10 or 15 minutes
You roll back to your desk over an hour later
Just the thought of getting your head back in the zone exhausts you
15 minutes later you're back in your groove 🛫
An exec drops by to chat about something that's been on his mind 🛬
😞
Interrupting your user's workflow is a lot like that in a little microcosm.
answered 45 mins ago
plainclothes
19.6k43777
add a comment |
Death by meeting ☠️
The best analogy I've come up with for office-dwellers is meetings. Both the scheduled and unscheduled variety apply, but the latter is the best parallel.
There's nothing more disruptive to productive workers than the constant task-switching of a meeting-culture office. Listen to a sad little story with me …
You have some big stuff on your list today
You put on your headphones and settle in
You pick the next problem or task from your list
You're really going to accomplish something today!
💥
A meeting reminder pops up on your screen
All that hard work is flushed 🚽
Shuffle off to the conference room on floor 5
Spend the next hour wrapping your head around a totally new issue
One of the attendees pulls you aside to talk about follow-up
You talk for another 10 or 15 minutes
You roll back to your desk over an hour later
Just the thought of getting your head back in the zone exhausts you
15 minutes later you're back in your groove 🛫
An exec drops by to chat about something that's been on his mind 🛬
😞
Interrupting your user's workflow is a lot like that in a little microcosm.
answered 45 mins ago
plainclothes
19.6k43777
Death by meeting ☠️
The best analogy I've come up with for office-dwellers is meetings. Both the scheduled and unscheduled variety apply, but the latter is the best parallel.
There's nothing more disruptive to productive workers than the constant task-switching of a meeting-culture office. Listen to a sad little story with me …
You have some big stuff on your list today
You put on your headphones and settle in
You pick the next problem or task from your list
You're really going to accomplish something today!
💥
A meeting reminder pops up on your screen
All that hard work is flushed 🚽
Shuffle off to the conference room on floor 5
Spend the next hour wrapping your head around a totally new issue
One of the attendees pulls you aside to talk about follow-up
You talk for another 10 or 15 minutes
You roll back to your desk over an hour later
Just the thought of getting your head back in the zone exhausts you
15 minutes later you're back in your groove 🛫
An exec drops by to chat about something that's been on his mind 🛬
😞
Interrupting your user's workflow is a lot like that in a little microcosm.
answered 45 mins ago
plainclothes
19.6k43777
answered 45 mins ago
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