
The Invisible Work: Designing for Cognitive Load
A developer's guide to cognitive load: expose hidden mental work, preserve task context, and build interfaces that support understanding without hiding decisions.
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A developer's guide to cognitive load: expose hidden mental work, preserve task context, and build interfaces that support understanding without hiding decisions.

Chunking is more than dividing content into cards. Learn to group meaning, preserve context, and test whether your interface helps people understand.
Design a documentation homepage around first actions, returning tasks,
A breadth-first crawl of my 1,330 built HTML pages put 1,276 of 1,288 posts at depth 2. Then I dropped the archive from the link graph, and 296 posts became unreachable from the homepage.

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