hicks-law
✓Optimize decision-making speed by managing choice quantity. Use when designing navigation, menus, feature sets, onboarding flows, or any interface where users must choose between options.
Installation
SKILL.md
Hick's Law (also Hick-Hyman Law) states that the time it takes to make a decision increases logarithmically with the number and complexity of choices. Named after British psychologist William Edmund Hick and American psychologist Ray Hyman (1952).
| Choices | Relative Decision Time | User Experience |
| 2 | Baseline | Quick, confident | | 4 | +1 unit | Still manageable | | 8 | +2 units | Starting to slow | | 16 | +3 units | Noticeable hesitation | | 32 | +4 units | Overwhelm begins | | 64+ | +5+ units | Paralysis likely |
Optimize decision-making speed by managing choice quantity. Use when designing navigation, menus, feature sets, onboarding flows, or any interface where users must choose between options. Source: flpbalada/my-opencode-config.
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- Install command
npx skills add https://github.com/flpbalada/my-opencode-config --skill hicks-law- Category
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- 2026-02-01
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- 2026-02-18
Quick answers
What is hicks-law?
Optimize decision-making speed by managing choice quantity. Use when designing navigation, menus, feature sets, onboarding flows, or any interface where users must choose between options. Source: flpbalada/my-opencode-config.
How do I install hicks-law?
Open your terminal or command line tool (Terminal, iTerm, Windows Terminal, etc.) Copy and run this command: npx skills add https://github.com/flpbalada/my-opencode-config --skill hicks-law Once installed, the skill will be automatically configured in your AI coding environment and ready to use in Claude Code or Cursor
Where is the source repository?
https://github.com/flpbalada/my-opencode-config
Details
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- Source
- skills.sh
- First Seen
- 2026-02-01