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Psychology of forms

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Psychology of forms

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- [Instructor] Psychology is the study of understanding people's behaviors and emotions. What makes someone tick? What makes them happy? Without the ability to predict these behaviors, successful UX can't exist. To the untrained eye, good design might seem like a series of happy accidents. But each color, shape, line, font, text, and graphic signifies something. Curved shapes represent positive emotional messages. Odd one out images draw the eye in. These are just a couple of psychological principles that direct our attention and our subconscious to where the designer wants it to be. And most of them are so hard-wired that we don't even notice them anymore. The sweet and simple premise is good UX gets the user to where they want to be, as quickly and as smoothly as possible. They encourage minimized cognitive load. In cognitive psychology, cognitive load refers to the total amount of mental effort being used in…

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