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Recognizing what is normal in human memory helps you understand better both how to design information in harmony with it and to comprehend what impairments are not standard. Especially important in terms of understanding natural ageing.
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Memory and Age
2 warnings
1Neuroscience is not
certain
2Neurotypical persona
& neuro-spectrum
Our brain wants to help us
To be social
To be happy
Memory changes over life
Why?
Memory changes as our capabilities and
needs change
Our brain works round physical changes and impairments
A few moments of your memory life
Baby
Embedded capabilities
Young Person
Childhood Amnesia
Youth
Memory Bump
Middle Age
Nostalgia
Old Age
Anecdote
Design to work with the life rhythm of
memory
Alastair@acuity_design
