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Adam Tornhill

What Adam Tornhill thinks about design

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Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

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  1. Our readingNames act as cognitive compression mechanisms that allow design elements to stretch the amount of information held in working memory.

    Their wordsNames are cognitive compression mechanisms. Design elements with strong names stretch the amount of information you can hold in your head at once.

    ↗Code for Humans and Machinesadamtornhill.substack.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

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  3. Our readingThe less humans code, the more it is necessary to optimize for design, architecture, and socio-technical fit.

    Their wordsThe less we humans code ourselves, the more we need to optimize for design, architecture, and a socio-technical fit.

    ↗Code for Humans and Machinesadamtornhill.substack.com 1st of 3 in this piece