How Learning Works

Learning is a loop, the more you go through, the better you get

Edition 049 of Design Insight

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📃 3 Articles

How Learning Works: Components, Systems, and Loops

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Unprocessed knowledge on its own is useless.

2. A skill is the ability to do something in a repeatable way under different contexts.

3. Learning is an infinite system called a loop. The more loops you go through, the better you get.

How Learning Works: Components, Systems, and Loops ➜

Psychology Concepts to Apply in E-Commerce Web Design and Copy

The article in 3 ideas:

1. When your brain is faced with multiple decisions, it takes shortcuts to preserve energy.

2. The isolation effect - when multiple similar objects are presented, the one that differs from the rest is most likely to be remembered.

3. Loss aversion - people feel the pain of losing twice as much as the pleasure of gaining.

Psychology Concepts to Apply in E-Commerce Web Design and Copy ➜

How You Work - Developer Musings

The article in 3 ideas:

1. Learning how you work best is a superpower.

2. Create a personal user manual to document how you work best.

3. You can share this manual with coworkers so they know how you work.

How You Work - Developer Musings ➜

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🔨 2 Tools/Resources

Namelix ➜

Generate a short, brandable business name using artificial intelligence

Gratisography ➜

Royalty-free HD stock photos and images

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🎨 1 Design Tip

Design Tip

Sreenath Pradeep • UI/UX • web3 @sreenathpradeep

💡Prototyping tip for beginner UI/UX designers: ✅Animation duration should be in the range of 200ms to 500ms for getting the best results. ❌Less than 200ms is too fast to be noticed by the eye. More than 1000ms is too slow.

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Michelle

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