25. It's A Good Thing That People Forget

It's A Good Thing That People Forget

• It's important to understand that our memories will sometimes fail us. But why is it that we can remember some things and not others?

People Are Always Going To Forget

• Think about the sensory inputs we encounter on a daily basis
• Food you ate, smells in your home, colors in the sky, the feel of a blanket, etc.
• What people forget is not a conscious decision
• The brain decides what to remember and what to forget
• Makes the decisions necessary to keep you functioning
• There is science behind how much you will forget
• R=e(-t/s) Where R is your memory retention, S is the strength of memory, and t is time.

Design with Forgetting in Mind

• Do NOT rely on the audience to remember information on their own
• Provide the information in your design or provide and easy way for the reader to access the information

Why do we forget things?

• Why Do We Forget Things? (Einbetten)