Author: Susan Weinschenk
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Human Tech Episode #114: Shop Talk
In this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk about how changes in the workplace during the pandemic have affected user experience work within organizations.
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10 Best Psychology Books
Every few years I update my list of favorite psychology books, and it’s that time again. It turns out that this is my most popular blog post. So here’s my latest list. Let me know if you have some favorites that you think should have made it on my list but didn’t. (These are in…
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7 Best UX (User Experience) Design Books
Every few years I update my list of favorite UX (user experience) design books, and it’s that time again. So here’s my latest list. Let me know if you have some favorites that you think should have made it on my list but didn’t. (These are in no particular order, i.e., #1 doesn’t mean it’s…
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Human Tech Episode #113: Caroline Jarrett Visits the Show
In this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk with Caroline Jarrett about the user experience of surveys. Besides being an expert on forms design, Caroline has recently written a book on survey design. You can reach Caroline at her company website: https://www.effortmark.co.uk/ or by email: caroline.jarrett@effortmark.co.uk Check out her new book: Also, here is…
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What Research Tells Us About the Power of the Tribe
Below is a guest post from Steven Sloman and Mugur Geana “…human beings are tribal all the way down, all the way to the processes that govern thought. In other words, we let others think for us.” We thought we had a solution. After a year of cowering in our homes, science had come to…
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Design is evolving—and designers need to evolve with it.
Below is a guest post from Nathan Shedroff ‘While designers have evolved over the last 25 years to be advocates for the audience/customer, we now need to be advocates for the rest of everyone else, democracy, society, and the planet, itself.“ I was taught design in a world and a time where the word primarily…
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On the Human Tech podcast: A conversation with Nathan Shedroff
In this episode we talk to Nathan Shedroff about the culture of user experience, sustainable design, and more. Nathan is an interaction designer, and a teacher at the California College of the Arts. You can reach Nathan by going to his website: https://nathan.com/ And check out the guest article by Nathan on how design is…
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4 Influencers of Corporate Ethics
In this podcast episode we talk about the 4 ways that ethics are influenced inside an organization: The Free Market The Government Corporate Leadership Employees
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Human Factors in Healthcare: An interview with Russ Branaghan
Every day around the world thousands of people receive medical treatment. They, or their health care practitioner are using a medical device: an xray machine, a pacemaker, a medication infusion pump… So how well designed is that medical device? Did a human factors expert work on the design to help make it error proof? How…
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Humans Calculate By Feel on the Human Tech Podcast
In this Human Tech podcast episode we talk about behavioral economics, specifically about the idea that people don’t calculate the value of products and services rationally, but they do so by following how they feel about what something is worth. Guthrie walks us through the research and the practical implications.
