Bill Gaffney
Bill Gaffney is a technology strategist and self-professed geek. He is working with the talented team at LIN Media as their Director of New Media and loving every minute of it.
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30 Usability Issues To Be Aware Of - Smashing Magazine
Since human brain has some limits on its capacity for processing information, it deals with complexity dividing information into chunks and units. According to George A. Miller’s studies humans’ short term memory can retain only about 5-9 things at one time. This fact is often used as an argument for limiting the number of options in navigation menus to 7; however there are heated debates about The Myth of “Seven, Plus or Minus 2″. Therefore it’s not clear how the 7±2 Principle can, could or should be applied to the Web. Miller’s studies.
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