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You might also like Reason and Less by Vinod Goel (MIT Press). He talks about human behavior being an outcome of 4 systems - autonomous, instinctive, associative and reasoning with evolutionary newer systems like reasoning and associative tethered to evolutionary older systems like autonomous (every living organism exhibits some form of autonomous behavior). He describes emotion as some currency that mediates interactions between these systems, and the ultimate selection mechanism for initiating actions.

There's also the whole predictive processing camp in cognitive science whose position is loosely similar to the author's, but the author makes a much stronger commitment to computationalism than other researchers in the camp.

Interesting. N.J. Enfield (Linguist, Anthropologist) makes a similar point about the purpose for which language evolved for in "Language vs Reality". I'm paraphrasing loosely, but the core argument is that the primary role of language is to create an abstraction of reality in order to convince other people, than to accurately capture reality. He talks about how there are 2 layers of abstraction - how our senses compress information into higher order concepts that we consciously perceive, and how language further compresses information about these higher order concepts we have in our minds.

Aravind Narayanan seems to be the only guy qualified enough to be called an expert.

This article presumes that the usage scenario has been defined already (by a PM) and the designer is just creating visual representations to enact the said scenario. In that sense, the article seems to attempt to answer what should a developer do, in the absence of designer. In such situations(ideally you'd avoid them), it might be better to defer to the defaults of a framework such as Tailwind which has basic accessibility concerns addressed.

Such checklist/rule based approaches do not help anyone. Trying to understand why the said rules work from the standpoint of visual perception is much more beneficial in the long run. Designing with the Mind in Mind by Jeff Johnson (of Xerox PARC) is an introductory book on the why behind UI design guidelines that I often recommend to entry level designers.

This is very true