Category: psychology
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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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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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Episode 21: Monkey (Unconsciously) See, Monkey (Unconsciously) Do
Have you ever seen a chameleon? They instantly change color to adapt to whatever their background is. There’s a theory that humans can do this too. Of course, we can’t change our skin color to match our environment but the theory is that if you see someone behave in a certain way, you’ll follow that…
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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.
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We Overestimate Our Own Knowledge, the latest episode on the Human Tech Podcast
If you ask someone how much they know about a particular topic they tend to overestimate their own knowledge. And we tend to rely on our social network to fill in our knowledge gaps. This illusion about how much we know is the topic of the latest Human Tech podcast episode, where we talk with…
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Authors Karl Fast and Stephen Anderson on “Figure It Out”
WOW, WOW, WOW. If your job involves designing anything, or communicating information to others, then I think you need to read this book. On this episode of Human Tech we interview Karl Fast and Stephen Anderson about their recently published book: Figure It Out: Getting from Information to Understanding. On the episode I act like…
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Amy Bucher and Behavior Change Design on the Human Tech podcast
Amy Bucher, Vice President of Behavior Change at MadPow, and author of Engaged: Designing for Behavior Change, joins us for this episode on Human Tech. And if you are interested in purchasing the book the publisher, Rosenfeld, has a coupon code for us: Go to this webpage: https://rosenfeldmedia.com/books/engaged-designing-for-behavior-change/ and when you are checking out use…
