S 04 (TRAILER): Design for the Edges How do we design for cognitive load through the lens of ADHD, and improve digital experiences for everyone? This season of Ways Into Practice is about cognitive load: the mental effort it takes to use an app or a website. (WIP) Institute interns and researchers Emily Tvervåg and Ida Holmen Skjervold look at how small design choices add up, and how they can quietly wear people down. Their starting point is their own research into how people with ADHD experience the web. Minds that are easily overwhelmed feel a bad design choice first, and feel it hardest. That makes them a powerful test: if a service works well for them, it tends to work better for everyone. This matters more each year. In Norway, the share of adults treated for ADHD in the public health system more than doubled in ten years, rising 148% between 2015 and 2024. More people are being recognised as neurodivergent, and the way we live now asks more of everyone’s attention and focus. Design that respects how minds work is no longer a nice extra. It is becoming a basic part of building fair, usable digital services. Across the season, Emily and Ida talk to guests from medicine, research, and tech. Together they ask a simple question with big consequences: how do we build digital services and products that don’t exhaust the people using them?
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