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title: "Serial Position Effect - Air Market"
description: "When people see a sequence, they remember the first and last items best. This helps you use that when you are putting menus, lists, and steps in order, so the things that matter land in the positions…"
canonical: "https://airmarket.ai/app/serial-position-effect"
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[Air Market](/) / [Design](/category/design) / Serial Position Effect

Skill by [MC Dean](/@owl-listener)

# Serial Position Effect

First and last get remembered - order your lists accordingly

## What this does

When people see a sequence, they remember the first and last items best. This helps you use that when you are putting menus, lists, and steps in order, so the things that matter land in the positions people retain. Reach for it whenever you are deciding on an order.

### Top 3 things it does for you

- Order menu items with recall in mind
- Decide what goes first and last in a list
- Sequence steps so the important ones stick

## Information

**Serial Position Effect at a glance**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Kind | Skill |
| Publisher | [MC Dean](/@owl-listener) |
| Category | [Design](/category/design) |
| Works with | Agent Skills - an open standard supported by 40+ agents |
| Size | 4 KB |
| Licence | MIT |
| Repository | [Owl-Listener/designer-skills](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/interaction-design/skills/serial-position-effect) |
| GitHub stars | 2,144 (as of Nov 2026) |

## Security report

**Verified.** AIR scanned this exact version of Serial Position Effect and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: **safe**.

**What Serial Position Effect's check was run against**

|  |  |
| --- | --- |
| Commit | 20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e |
| Content hash | bcd0eed2a7502fba89113ea8cd52e0b5e8225ba1a03d26c8ec8fc5281a7b1f25 |
| Files read | [Browse the files at this exact commit](https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/blob/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/interaction-design/skills/serial-position-effect/SKILL.md) |

A scan is named by the exact content it read, not by a version number. A different version is a different artifact, and nothing here applies to a version AIR has not scanned.

[Read the full security report for Serial Position Effect](/security/serial-position-effect)

## About Serial Position Effect

This applies the Serial Position Effect - the finding that the first and last items in a sequence are recalled best.

Use it when you are ordering menus, lists, and steps. If you need one item to stand out no matter where it sits in the order, that is the von Restorff effect instead.

## What's inside

- SKILL.md - instructions

## Questions

### Is Serial Position Effect safe to install?

AIR scanned this exact version of Serial Position Effect and flagged nothing. AIR's verdict: safe. The verdict is named by the content that was read, at commit 20e34c4a587e, so it cannot drift onto a version nobody scanned. The full report is at https://airmarket.ai/security/serial-position-effect.

### How do I install Serial Position Effect?

Open https://airmarket.ai/app/serial-position-effect on Air Market and use the install action: Air Market hands Claude a prompt naming this exact skill, and Claude sets it up. Source, pinned to the exact commit this listing describes: https://github.com/Owl-Listener/designer-skills/tree/20e34c4a587e5eb09fcdf8351fa97b3ad761b31e/interaction-design/skills/serial-position-effect. Install from that link, not the branch.

## Related on Air Market

- [More Design listings](/category/design)
- [Everything by MC Dean](/@owl-listener)

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Canonical URL: <https://airmarket.ai/app/serial-position-effect>