{"id":1281,"date":"2013-07-29T17:14:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-30T00:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/?p=1281"},"modified":"2013-07-29T17:14:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-30T00:14:41","slug":"your-app-makes-me-fat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/29\/your-app-makes-me-fat\/","title":{"rendered":"“your app makes me fat”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kathy Sierra<\/a> has returned to the world of blogging after a 6-year hiatus, and her first post on her new blog is stellar. \u00a0It’s called “Your app makes me fat”<\/a>, and it’s a fantastic piece about cognitive load — that is, how much brain power you have to put into completing a task.<\/p>\n

She talks about how cognitive load not only impacts how our users interact with our applications, but also how it impacts the lives of our users. \u00a0It’s a great reminder that our user experience doesn’t stand by itself. \u00a0Instead, our user experience is just a part of the day for our users. \u00a0We often talk about “death by a thousand paper cuts”, and I think that we forget that those paper cuts still hurt even when our users leave their desks. \u00a0After all, who hasn’t gone home after a bad technology day at the office and been unable to focus on anything else because they were so drained by what they’d experienced that day?<\/p>\n

It’s a long post, and there’s a lot in there to think about. \u00a0Make sure that you’re ready to settle in, read the post, and think about her points. \u00a0I know I’m going to have to re-read it at another time when I’ve got more energy to focus on it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kathy Sierra has returned to the world of blogging after a 6-year hiatus, and her first post on her new blog is stellar. \u00a0It’s called “Your app makes me fat”, and it’s a fantastic piece about cognitive load — that is, how much brain power you have to put into completing a task. She talks … Continue reading “your app makes me fat”<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1281"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1282,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1281\/revisions\/1282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nadynerichmond.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}