From the course: UX Foundations: Logic and Content
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Causation
We live in a physical world that's governed by the laws of physics. This has made us experts at observing and understanding causation. When I roll a ball across a pool table and hit another ball, the second ball receives the energy from the first and continues rolling. Cause and effect. This understanding of causation gives us an impressive ability to predict future events, at least within a short time frame. If I drop an egg on the floor, it'll break. If I move the tip of a pencil across a piece of paper. It'll draw a line. Our understanding of causality and the ability to predict the outcome of actions and events is based on logic and observation. You see a sequence of events, one leading to another. And based on this, you create a hypothesis that causality is at play. If you observe the same sequence of events again that hypothesis is strengthened. If you are able to reproduce the sequence yourself, that hypothesis becomes a theory from which you'll feel secure in making future…
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