Bikeshedding
Also known as Parkinson's Law of Triviality, is the tendency to spend excessive time on trivial details while neglecting more important issues.
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“cognitive efficiency”
Cognitive Load Theory
A theory that explains how the amount of mental effort required to process information can impact user experience and task performance.
Bounded Rationality
A concept that humans make decisions within the limits of their knowledge, cognitive capacity, and available time, leading to satisficing rather than optimal solutions.
Information Processing
The series of actions or operations involved in the acquisition, interpretation, storage, and retrieval of information.
Decision Fatigue
The deteriorating quality of decisions made by an individual after a long session of decision making, due to mental exhaustion.
Limited Attention
The concept that humans have a finite capacity for attention, influencing how they perceive and interact with information.
Take the Best Heuristic
A decision-making rule where individuals choose the option with the highest perceived value based on the first good reason that comes to mind, ignoring other information.
Serial Position Effect
A cognitive bias where people tend to remember the first and last items in a series better than those in the middle, impacting recall and memory.
Recognition Over Recall
A design principle that suggests interfaces should minimize the need for users to recall information from memory, instead providing cues to aid recognition.