Category: psychology
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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…
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It’s Our 100th Episode of the Human Tech Podcast
This is episode 100 of our Human Tech podcast! We talk about how deep learning/AI might be different if machines learned via audio. And we talk a little bit about our current “Covid” world.
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Userlytics User Testing Tool Helped Us Get Through a Difficult Semester
I teach courses in user experience as an Adjunct Professor at a campus of University of Wisconsin (the campus in Stevens Point Wisconsin). Like campuses around the world we are shut down because of the Covid pandemic. We’re teaching remotely on Zoom and students are trying to finish their coursework while sheltering at home. I’m…
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2nd Edition of 100 Things Book
When I wrote 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People I, of course, hoped people would like it (every author wants to be a “best seller”!). It has turned out to be even more popular than I had thought and hoped, and I am very grateful to all the readers who have read…
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Our Digital Lives After Death
In this episode of the Human Tech podcast we talk with Elaine Kasket, author of All the Ghosts in the Machine about our digital lives after we die. Who owns our data and what happens to it after we’re gone? To learn more about Elaine and the book: https://www.elainekasket.com/ You can reach her at write@elainekasket.com
