Mastodawn

Designing for people with anxiety

"Most of us will experience anxiety at some point, sometimes triggered by a stressful moment, other times as a chronic condition. By taking thoughtful, intentional steps, we can ensure our designs at the most reduce stress, and the very least, do not contribute to or amplify it further."

https://tetralogical.com/blog/2026/03/10/designing-for-people-with-anxiety/

#webDesign #inclusiveDesign #cognitiveLoad #userExperience #WCAG

Designing for people with anxiety - TetraLogical

Most of us will experience anxiety at some point, sometimes triggered by a stressful moment, other times as a chronic condition. By taking thoughtful, intentional steps, we can ensure our designs at the most reduce stress, and the very least, do not contribute to or amplify it further.

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AdamRGrey 3d ago

is #cognitiveload a tiktok trend? i swear i've heard a few people bring it up.
the master issues orders and the slave follows them... pity the master? 🤣

pauldesai Mar 4

The Tax of Partial Attention

The cost of an unresolved task isn't the task itself — it's the attention tax you pay every time you boot up and see it still sitting there.

For ten months I've been building MirrorDNA: a sovereign

https://activemirror.ai/blog/the-tax-of-partial-attention

#sovereignty #systemsthinking #cognitiveload #attentionarchitecture #buildinginpublic

Coder Jason Feb 14

Media producers have a #bias. Would be nice to have a #tool that assists with our #mediaconsumption. Not so much as a #censor, but as an informer. An #app that pre-digests #content, and then serves it with additional information to understand what and why something is presented to us, in a specific manner. All with the aim to reduce #cognitiveload and supporting #criticalthinking powered consumption of media consumption, in a #content #saturated #environment.

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Strypey Feb 13

"Instead of simply typing a message to your friend and pressing the send button, you have to spend some cognitive energy trying to remember which messaging app that friend prefers to use, then switch to that app, find the message thread, THEN you can pick up the conversation."

@Adam, 2022

https://bookofadamz.com/the-smartest-messaging-method-is-not-a-segregated-mess-of-whatsapp-signal-telegram-sms-slack-teams-facebook-instagram-wechat-etc

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#chat #CognitiveLoad

Alena Solo Feb 12

Hello there! Today’s brain-buster: cognitive load. Flip our UX/UI glossary flashcard for the scoop: https://lingualeveling.substack.com/p/glossary-uxui-cognitive-load
#ESL #EnglishLearning #DigitalLearning #UXUI #cognitiveload

Dennis Alexis Valin Dittrich Feb 10

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It https://hbr.org/2026/02/ai-doesnt-reduce-work-it-intensifies-it
“AI introduced a new rhythm in which workers managed several active threads at once: manually writing code while AI generated an alternative version, running multiple agents in parallel, or reviving long-deferred tasks because AI could “handle them” in the background. They did this, in part, because they felt they had a “partner” that could help them move through their workload.

While this sense of having a “partner” enabled a feeling of momentum, the reality was a continual switching of attention, frequent checking of #AI outputs, and a growing number of open tasks. This created #cognitiveload and a sense of always juggling
… What looks like higher #productivity in the short run can mask silent workload creep and growing cognitive strain as employees juggle multiple AI-enabled workflows
… overwork can impair judgment, increase the likelihood of errors, and make it harder for organizations to distinguish genuine productivity gains from unsustainable intensity
… the cumulative effect is fatigue, #burnout, and a growing sense that work is harder to step away from, especially as organizational expectations for speed and responsiveness rise."
#LaborEcon

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they consistently intensify it: In the study, employees worked at a faster pace, took on a broader scope of tasks, and extended work into more hours of the day, often without being asked to do so. That may sound like a win, but it’s not quite so simple. These changes can be unsustainable, leading to workload creep, cognitive fatigue, burnout, and weakened decision-making. The productivity surge enjoyed at the beginning can give way to lower quality work, turnover, and other problems. To correct for this, companies need to adopt an “AI practice,” or a set of norms and standards around AI use that can include intentional pauses, sequencing work, and adding more human grounding.

Harvard Business Review