The notion in psychology that the human brain is capable of maintaining 7 +/- 2 pieces of information at a time for immediate recall. Miller’s Law has important implications in areas such as Customer Experience and User Experience. A concept similar to what’s behind Miller’s Law — the Permutation Formula — applies to how many communications paths are realistic among a group of people, such as a software team, where the size of the team tends to fall within the same range of numbers.
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Miller’s Law Video
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Miller’s Law Example
Related Subjects
Customer Experience
User Experience
Acknowledgements
Authored by Philip Rogers
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