Design v ADHD

ADHD is a complex and common mental disorder which changes how the person processes information, behaves, and functions in society. Common recommendations for “ADHD-friendly design” include reducing clutter, avoiding distractions, and simplifying information architecture. I argue that these suggestions do not constitute “ADHD-friendly design”, and that the real solution is more sophisticated and challenging, if not impossible, to implement.This article was first published on my Medium. You can read it there for free.Read it on MediumIn 2014, Ethan Zuckerman, a renowned media scholar and Internet activist, apologised for his role in inventing the Internet’s most hated marketing tool: the pop-up ad. All of us have screwed up situations in our lives so badly that we’ve been forced to explain our actions by reminding everyone of our good intentions. It’s obvious now that what we did was a fiasco, so let me remind you that what we wanted to do was something brave and noble. In the late…