Miller's Law

Clumping information makes it easier to memorize.

The content of a paper published by cognitive psychologist George Miller in 1956 is the law that 'a person can remember about 7 things at a time'. Miller said that when a person is working on a task, he briefly remembers it in his head. working memoryThe number of information that can be stored in is claimed to be 5 to 9 as the limit. Subsequent experiments have shown that there is no exact magic number, but it illustrates the importance of chunking meaning. A typical example is when we hang up and memorize a phone number. This existed even before Miller's work, and this method of memory is called chunking.

Experiencing short-term memory

Level 1

If possible, please bring a pen and paper. There will be 20 words below. Memorize as many as you can and keep scrolling to step 2.

Step 2

Never scroll up again! Now use pen and paper and write down as many words as you can remember from the list. When you're done, check how many words you've memorized.

conclusion

As Miller claims, I would have typically memorized between five and nine words. If the context for navigating information like this was simple, and the environment was similar, similar results would have been obtained. However, it will be difficult to apply the numbers of this law directly to a product in practice. It doesn't matter if the information to be remembered is neutral information without a special context, such as numbers, but in the case of information with meaning and context, such as categories, cognition and classification may be different, so it would be difficult to see that it should be composed of 5 to 9 items. . However, what we can learn from this rule seems to be that it is important to organize scattered information according to context so that users can easily remember it in their heads.

reference

http://psychclassics.yorku.ca/Miller/

https://www.deegix.com/web/index.php/social-blog/item/15-the-most-important-rule-in-ux-design

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