Monday, March 31, 2008

8% slower

Breaking news, as I approach my 40th birthday. I'm slow, and getting slower:



"a 40-year-old user will take 8% longer than a 30-year-old user to accomplish the same task. And a 50-year-old user will require an additional 8% more time."



This, it turns out, is perfectly natural:



"The human aging process starts around age 25 and causes erosion of cognitive resources, loss of visual acuity, degraded reaction times, and reduced dexterity. People need more time for the same mental operations; they have less memory capacity and take longer to process the same perceptual input."



http://www.useit.com/alertbox/middle-aged-users.html