The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information.¶
Miller, G. A. (1956). The magical number seven, plus or minus two: Some limits on our capacity for processing information.
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- Cap the chunk. Keep each block small enough to hold at once; when a block sprawls past a handful of actions, it is usually two chunks wearing one label.
This sourceEither way, the practical rule is the same — a block should be sized to what a person can hold while acting on it.
- Cap the chunk. Keep each block small enough to hold at once; when a block sprawls past a handful of actions, it is usually two chunks wearing one label.
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