Category: psychology
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The Next 100 Things You Need To Know About People: #102 — The Best Way To Process Big Data Is Unconsciously
Jason is 20 years old and he’s deaf. He puts on a special vest that’s wired so that when it receives data, it sends pulses to his back. The vest is connected to a tablet. When I say the word “book” into a microphone that feeds into the tablet, the tablet turns the word into…
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The Next 100 Things You Need To Know About People: #101 — People Read Only 60% Of An Online Article
——————————————- [A note from the author, Susan Weinschenk: “On October 25, 2009 I wrote my first “100 Things” blog post: “100 Things You Should Know About People: #1 — You Have ‘Inattention Blindness.” I didn’t know at the time that that series of 100 blog posts would turn into my book 100 Things Every Designer…
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5 Reasons We Make Poor Decisions
I just read a great report from Eric Olive on how and why we make decisions, especially bad ones. Here’s a summary of the report and the trouble we can get ourselves into: Most of our decision-making happens unconsciously, so it’s difficult to prevent these errors. Eric says your best strategy is to put some procedures…
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The Neuro-Aesthetics of Hillary’s Campaign Logo
Yesterday Hillary Clinton announced her candidacy for President of the US, and before 24 hours went by I had a media request to talk about why people were reacting so strongly (in a negative way) to her logo. I’m in the middle of writing my next book (100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs to Know About…
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Digital Expectations Report From Razorfish
If you haven’t checked out the new report by Razorfish: DIGITAL DOPAMINE: 2015 GLOBAL DIGITAL MARKETING REPORT, you may want to check it out sooner rather than later. And I’m not just saying that because I’m in it! (The report contains a one page interview I did with one of their staff — page 29). It’s…
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Creative Market’s 10 Must-Read UX Books
I was thrilled to see that 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People made Creative Market’s “10 Must-Read UX Books”. Check out the book on Amazon if you aren’t familiar with it. Here’s the link to Amazon: 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People. And you may want to go to Creative Market’s…
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What Would Make An Animated Character Appear “Creepy”?
Have you ever stopped to think about animated characters? With the capabilities of graphics these days it’s possible for an animated character to look just like a real person. And then there are still cartoon characters created that look nothing like real people. Have you ever experienced an animated character that “creeped” you out? Animators…
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Will 2015 Be The Year Of the Demise Of The Keyboard?
Maybe I’m giving away my age when I say that I’ve been waiting to talk to computers since I was a kid watching Star Trek. Although voice interfaces have been around for a while, until recently they really didn’t work that well. Along came Siri and now there is “OK Google”, and we are starting to…
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Your Brain On Stories
One day, many years ago, when I was early in my career, I found myself in front of a classroom full of people who didn’t want to be there. Their boss had told them they had to attend the class I was giving. I knew that many, even most, of them thought the class was…
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365 Ways To Persuade And Motivate: #15-24
For this post I’ve put 10 ways to persuade and motivate altogether in one post! 15. Talk first – Research shows that people like to follow a leader and that the person who talks first when a group gets together becomes the leader. 16. Give a gift – When someone gives you a gift you…
