Categories: Psychology and Human Behavior

What happens when you’ve built a great website or app, but no one seems to care? How do you get people to stick around long enough to see how your service might be of value? In Seductive Interaction Design, speaker and author Stephen P. Anderson takes a ...

Resource - Stephen P. Anderson - December 31, 1969 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. User experience design (UXD) is a subset of the field of experience design that pertains to the creation of the architecture ...

Resource - Lambert M. Surhone, Susan F. Henssonow, Mariam T. Tennoe - December 31, 1969 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

In the future, products and machines will know how we feel and how to adapt to those feelings. This book analyzes the influence of specific everyday situations and contexts on the emotional state of people and ways this will impact future user experi ...

Resource - Joyce Westerink, Martin Ouwerkerk, Martijn Krans - December 31, 1969 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

We design to elicit responses from people. We want them to buy something, read more, or take action of some kind. Designing without understanding what makes people act the way they do is like exploring a new city without a map: results will be haphazard ...

Resource - Susan Weinschenk - December 31, 1969 - 1 comment - 0 attachments

"How We Think" is John Dewey's exposition on the nature of human thinking. Illustrated through numerous everyday examples, Dewey details the varying processes by which one might engage in the critical thinking process. With the aim of making student ...

Resource - John Dewey - December 31, 2006 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Milton H. Erikson has been called the most influential hypnotherapist of our time. Closely related to his therapy was his use of "teaching tales." Calling upon shock, surprise, confusion—with generous use of questions, puns, and playful humor—he seed ...

Resource - Sidney Rosen - March 16, 1991 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The future belongs to a different kind of person with a different kind of mind: artists, inventors, storytellers-creative and holistic "right-brain" thinkers whose abilities mark the fault line between who gets ahead and who doesn't. Drawing on re ...

Resource - Daniel H. Pink - March 06, 2006 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

With Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson pairs the insight of his bestselling Everything Bad Is Good for You and the dazzling erudition of The Ghost Map and The Invention of Air to address an urgent and universal question: What sparks the flash o ...

Resource - Steven Johnson - October 04, 2010 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Increasingly, designers need to present information in ways that aid their audience's thinking process. Fortunately, results from the relatively new science of human visual perception provide valuable guidance.  In Visual Thinking for Design, Co ...

Resource - Colin Ware - April 17, 2008 - 0 comments - 0 attachments