Memory & age

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Recognizing what is normal in human memory helps you understand better both how to design information in harmony with it and to comprehend what impairments are not standard. Especially important in terms of understanding natural ageing.

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Memory and Age

2 warnings

1Neuroscience is not

certain

2Neurotypical persona

& neuro-spectrum

Our brain wants to help us

To be social

To be happy

Memory changes over life

Why?

Memory changes as our capabilities and

needs change

Our brain works round physical changes and impairments

A few moments of your memory life

Baby

Embedded capabilities

Young Person

Childhood Amnesia

Youth

Memory Bump

Middle Age

Nostalgia

Old Age

Anecdote

Design to work with the life rhythm of

memory

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Alastair@acuity_design