What A Cat Wants, What A Cat Needs

Since I’ve been doing the dog thing so much, I think it’s only fair that I do the cat thing for a bit. Below you’ll find the “mental model” of a cat (click to make the picture big and legible). The cat’s mental model, as well as the concept of metal modeling, can be credited to Mental Models: Aligning design strategy with human behavior by incredibly smart Indi Young. There are a lot more images from the book on flickr. If any of this sparks your interest, Liz Danzico has a good review of the book.

Cat Brains

2 Responses to “What A Cat Wants, What A Cat Needs”


  1. 1 Anne C. Says:
    March 21st, 2008 at 12:26 pm

    Pretty spot on. Thanks for posting this, hubs.


  2. 2 hubs Says:
    March 22nd, 2008 at 11:25 pm

    Glad you liked it Anne. Thanks for stopping by.

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