Shaping Our Tools to Fit the Brain

Annie Murphy Paul

We all have experience with things like ergonomic chairs: seats that are designed with the human body in mind. The designer of an ergonomic chair has to have a solid working knowledge of the human body and how it operates in order to build a chair that will be comfortable, supportive, and appealing to sit in. The same is true of the technological tools we use: the people who design them have to have a solid working knowledge of the human brain in order to build an app—or a website, or a software program—that feels “comfortable” for the brain to use, that doesn’t cause undue confusion or strain: [READ MORE HERE]