cognitive science

There And Back Again on Code Comments

It’s interesting how learning is sometimes like travel. At the end of the journey, you end up back where you started, only with a broadened perspective. Trivial example: code comments. As a new programmer, I commented my code extensively. This was probably to compensate for my difficulties in reading code. It also allowed me to …

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Google I/O 2013 – Cognitive Science and Design, and how it applies to Android apps

This is an excellent talk by Alex Faaborg at Google I/O 2013 about cognitive science principles and how they apply to interface design. Here’s a summary of some of the main points and how they could be used to improve your apps: We can search for objects of the same colour much faster than searching …

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