11 things about humans

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Often forgotten attributes that could help us engineers better understand the human species. An ice breaker for those tough software engineering discussions. Attributed to the www!

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11Thingsengineers need to know abouthumans

HUMANSDon’t like to work or think

HUMANSHAVE

LIMITATIONS

HUMANSMAKE MISTAKES

HUMANSHAVE A

COMPLICATED MEMORY

HUMANSARE SOCIAL(Oh Really?!)

HUMANSHAVE A RELATIVELY SHORT ATTENTION

SPAN

(COMPARED TO COMPUTERS)

HUMANSCRAVE INFORMATION

(ENGINEERS CAN’T REALLY TELL WHY)

HUMANSFORM MENTAL

MODELS

HUMANSARE INATELY

CURIOUS AND USE VISUAL SYSTEMS WHEN POSSIBLE

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HUMANSUSE SYSTEMS BUILT

BY ENGINEERS

(or they try to)

Engineers are cool

ENGINEERSBuild stuff that

delightHUMANS

Too

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That’s me – Lawrence Wilfred

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