MIXORA CONCEPT
Cognitive load
The demand a task places on limited mental processing and working-memory resources.
Complexity from the material itself cannot always be removed, but unnecessary navigation, jargon and simultaneous choices can be reduced. Good interfaces make structure visible.
What “Moderate evidence” means
The pattern has meaningful research support, but its size or reliability depends more strongly on context, population, measurement or competing explanations.
VISUAL EXPLANATION · MARKER BOARDSplitting a paint workflow into target, palette, ratio and verification steps is easier than presenting every control at once.
Making a task easier to navigate does not require removing its important difficulty.
Which mental effort serves learning, and which effort comes only from presentation?
A limited system for temporarily holding and manipulating information needed for an ongoing task.
→thought × bridgeAttentionSelective prioritization of some information for processing or action.
→thoughtHeuristicA simplifying strategy or rule of thumb used to make judgments or solve problems efficiently.
→SOURCES & TRUST
References
Last reviewed
- 01Working MemoryAcademic source
Alan Baddeley · 1992 · Science
Working memory as temporary storage and manipulation supporting comprehension, learning and reasoning.
What the source labels mean
- Primary source
- Original work, experiment, standard or historical text.
- Academic source
- Scholarly research or review published for an academic audience.
- Reference source
- An expert standard, encyclopedia or institutional explanation that summarizes a field.
- General reference
- A practical specialist resource useful for application, but not treated as decisive research by itself.