• 5 Ideas — How To Use Brain Science To Create Persuasive Presentations

    5 Ideas — How To Use Brain Science To Create Persuasive Presentations

    How many BORING presentations have you attended in your lifetime? If you are like most people the answer is “too many”! Recently I gave a talk on how to use brain science to create compelling and persuasive presentations. Here are 5 ideas from the talk:…

  • What Makes a City Usable?

    What Makes a City Usable?

    Last week I was in Portland Oregon for the Usability Professional’s Association Conference. It’s my second time in Portland, and I was struck again with how comfortable Portland feels. A common phrase I kept hearing on this trip while talking with people from the conference…

  • 7 Ways Mr. Fire Can Use Neuro Web Design to Turn Up The Heat

    7 Ways Mr. Fire Can Use Neuro Web Design to Turn Up The Heat

    Dr. Joe Vitale is Mr. Fire and when I got an email from him saying “I love your book” we talked first by email and then by phone. Joe interviewed me for his subscriber base, and during the interview he asked if I had looked…

  • 5 Steps to More Creativity Using Brain Science

    5 Steps to More Creativity Using Brain Science

    Want to be more creative? Whether you are an artist, writer, scientist, web designer, marketer, sales person or business executive, being more creative means you’ll come up with more and better ideas and have more fun while you are doing it. If you want to…

  • Be Like Obama

    Be Like Obama

    An article from Time on April 2, 2009 describes how President Obama used a secret group of behavioral scientists to craft his campaign, and how he continues to use the group to implement policy changes in the government and consumer changes in behavior. This secret…

  • Use Community to Encourage Self Service

    Use Community to Encourage Self Service

    I was speaking today with a friend/colleague about their project to try and get people to use a support website for technical help rather than call the help desk. She asked me how they could get people to use the website instead of call in.…

  • A Quick Summary of Some Interesting Research

    A Quick Summary of Some Interesting Research

    Now that March is here, I thought I’d summarize and link to some great research I found during the last month…. There are gender differences in brain activity when people view something the describe as beautiful. For men it is the right hemisphere that is…

  • Sell with Stories

    Sell with Stories

    It’s all about stories. Finca is a micro loan company. You give them some money and they loan it to people around the world who are trying to improve their lives. It’s a great organization doing vital work. Their website has good photos, but they…

  • A University Gets Neuro Savvy

    A University Gets Neuro Savvy

    With the economy the way it is right now I am guessing that colleges and universities are doing whatever they can to attract and keep students. Perhaps that is why we are seeing what is obviously a lot of effort being put into university websites.…

  • New Research Shows Herd Behavior When Shopping Online

    New Research Shows Herd Behavior When Shopping Online

    In my book, Neuro Web Design: What makes them click, I have a chapter on Social Validation: When we are uncertain we look to others to see what our behavior should be. Now some new research tests this idea online. In a series of research…