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In your head, ideas expand until they max out “working memory” – and it’s only by externalising them in the written word that you have capacity to iterate them.
The Surprising Effectiveness of Writing and Rewriting
interconnected.org
So, does the creation and destruction of information have any direct relationship to the beginning and ending of objects? Almost never. “Create” and “destroy”, when applied to information, really instruct the system to “perceive” and “forget”.
Data and Reality
William Kent
Here are three levels of mapping, arranged in decreasing effectiveness as memory aids:
• Best mapping: Controls are mounted directly on the item to be controlled.
• Second-best mapping: Controls are as close as possible to the object to be controlled.
• Third-best mapping: Controls are arranged in the same spatial configuration as the objects to be controlled.
The Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
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