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Recognition vs recall 0:29
A 29-second explainer of Recognition vs recall, narrated over the same demo you can try yourself.
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What this video covers
Recognising something you’re shown is easier than recalling it from scratch. Good interfaces give you choices - menus, icons, recent items, autocomplete - instead of forcing you to remember and type from nothing.
You recognised more than you could recall. That gap is the whole case for menus, icons, and autocomplete over a blank command line: a good interface lets you point at the answer instead of summoning it.
