Skip to Main Content
Badass: Making Users Awesome
book

Badass: Making Users Awesome

by Kathy Sierra
January 2015
Beginner to intermediate content levelBeginner to intermediate
294 pages
7h 11m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Badass: Making Users Awesome
152
Benets of Perceptual Exposure
Chicken
Sexing
Perceptual exposure
can move some
skills from A to C
without conscious
awareness of what
was learned or how
it was learned.
I just know.”
Chicken
Sexing
Plane
Spotting
Plane
Spotting
subskill
subskill
Photograph
Sunsets
A to C
(can’t do straight to mastered)
A to B and A to C
Program X
in Python
A to B to C faster and better
Program X
in Python
Program X
in Python
Perceptual exposure can
move some parts of a
complex skill from A to
B while simultaneously
moving other parts of
the skill straight from
A to C. That frees up
cognitive resources
more quickly.
Perceptual exposure can
move all skills from A to
B to C more quickly.
More importantly, the
mastered skills are
higher quality than
they would be without
perceptual exposure.
woosh
(We’ll look more at
cognitive resources later.)
The Challenge What Experts Do
153
sub-skill
sub-skill
Photograph
Sunsets
Perceptual Exposure builds capabilities
beyond what you think you’re learning
This is not the whole story of perceptual exposure
It’s actually more like this
sub-skill
sub-skill
Photograph
Sunsets
“the
magic”
That special “talent” that was
never acknowledged, explained,
taught (perceptual knowledge)
The new capability demonstrates
MORE than what was “taught”
The sub-skill you ARE consciously
aware of, but you don’t know ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Design It!

Design It!

Michael Keeling
Storytelling with You

Storytelling with You

Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic
Release It!, 2nd Edition

Release It!, 2nd Edition

Michael T. Nygard

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781491919057Errata Page