The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two | The Week of August, 8
Don’t make people remember more than they can
If your website is an online store, feature from five to nine products per page. If you develop a game, do not make people focus on more than seven things at a time. If for some reason you have to include many similar elements — group them.
This insight is adapted from?The Nine Principles of UX Design Psychology: Can You Predict the Behavior of Your Users??by Olga Boichuk.
Emeritus Professor at Rice University
2 年Grouping is definitely a good idea, but there have been several critiques of the 7 +- 2 heuristic. I like this one https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/154193129904300334 If you don’t have access to that article, the following is freely available and also good. https://uxmyths.com/post/931925744/myth-23-choices-should-always-be-limited-to-seven