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

Miller's Law

George Miller's finding that the average person can hold 7 (plus or minus 2) items in working memory at one time. Influences how information should be grouped and presented.

In plain language

Working memory holds roughly 7 items at once (±2). Beyond that, people start dropping things.

In the wild

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

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