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For the past several years, I've been looking at ideas from psychology we can apply to interaction design—ideas such as curiosity, scarcity, or feedback loops. This exploration eventually led to my book, Seductive Interaction Design , where I loo ...

Article - Stephen P. Anderson - December 13, 2011 - 8 comments - 0 attachments

Title 2:  An Authoritative Review by Tom Erickson of IBM’s Watson Research Lab At Interaction-Design.org , we make educational materials by top designers and top ...

Article - Mads Soegaard - November 11, 2011 - 1 comment - 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 UX discipline has been busy. In the last two decades, it has formalized the practices of information architecture , experience design, content strategy , and interaction design . Thanks to the insatiable drive of UX practitioners to improve ...

Article - Loren Baxter - June 07, 2011 - 19 comments - 0 attachments

Emotions shape all activity in adaptive ways. In the absence of emotional markers, decision making is virtually impossible.      - Saver and Damasio (1991) Persuasion in design is often regarded as a subset of UX, but ...

Article - Elisa del Galdo - February 08, 2011 - 4 comments - 0 attachments

I know what you're probably thinking. Video games may be extremely cool. They may be innovative. They may make tons of money. But they're ultimately, unavoidably, just entertainment. And persuasion is serious business; if you want to convince peopl ...

Article - John Ferrara - August 04, 2010 - 6 comments - 0 attachments

There is no feeling worse than the one of being used. It brings forth thoughts of betrayal, and even retribution – certainly not the sentiments we want to evoke if the aim is to stay in business. Online shoppers routinely feel such emotions after visit ...

Article - Giovanni Calabro - April 18, 2007 - 12 comments - 0 attachments