THE PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN-INFORMATION INTERACTION

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This course examines how human cognitive processes and the design of digital products come together to create useful, meaningful products. Students explore six cognitive domains—perception, attention, memory, learning, decision heuristics and language processing—and their application in interaction design and information architecture. They consider the design implications of user research when examined through a cognitive lens. Through hands-on application of cognitive principles to simple design prototypes, students learn to diagnose design failures, predict user behavior and consider cognition in human-AI partnerships. The course bridges cognitive psychology theory with foundational design principles and practical design decisions, preparing students to create systems that support how people think, learn and decide.