Week 32 · Human Interaction Psychology
End of experience
Where this idea goes next
- Hick's Law The two readouts this piece computes live — time-to-first-decision and the frequency-weighted cost that overtakes it — are both just RT = a + b·log2(n+1) applied twice; this is the law itself, worked from first principles.
- Gestalt Grouping The dossier's own spacing system leans on proximity to do the grouping a divider would otherwise have to explain — the same principle that lets a folded panel read as organised rather than merely smaller.
- Deceptive Dark Patterns Disclosure and deception share a mechanism — both manage what a user sees and when — pointed in opposite directions: one defers complexity so the user can finish, the other defers the exit so they cannot.