Did you know that your brain has mental sticky notes? This is called working memory, and it’s a cognitive system that lets you briefly hold and manipulate information in your head at the same time.
Users use working memory to perform tasks on interfaces. However, this becomes difficult if your design overloads and overworks it. A common scenario where this happens is when there are multiple dropdown menus for input selection.
When the data fields live in separate dropdowns, each one is an isolated interaction. Every time users close one dropdown and open another, they context-switch. This places a higher load on their working memory...
