Zusammenfassung der Ressource
31. People Create Mental Models
- What is a mental model?
- represents a person's thought
process for how something
works
- based off of incomplete facts
- past experiences
- intuitive perceptions
- Mental Models in Design
- representing
something a person
has in mind
- understand your target audience
- People make mental
models fairly quickly
- people refer mental models to predict what a
product/service/software will do or what they should do with it
- Ex. Imagine a cell phone.
Your mental model may be:
- iPhone
- Samsung Android
- Flip phone
- Takeaways
- people will always have a mental model
- mental models come from past experiences
- not everyone has the same mental model
- it's important to research your audience to understand their mental models