Users have a propensity to best remember the first and last items in a series. Takeaways Placing the least important items in the middle of lists can be helpful because these items tend to be stored less frequently in long-term and working memory. Positioning key actions on the far left and right within elements such as navigation can increase memorization. Origins The serial position effect, a term coined by Herman Ebbinghaus, describes how the position of an item in a sequence affects recal...
