Mental models/Fitts's Law
Cognitive Load & Information Processing

Fitts's Law

A predictive model of human movement stating that the time to acquire a target is a function of the distance to and size of the target.

In plain language

The time to tap a target depends on its size and distance. Big buttons close to the thumb = faster decisions.

In the wild

Implementations of this model aren’t wired to this view yet — they live in the implementations table.

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