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Cognitive Empathy: Your Everyday Survival Tool

  • Cognition, Emotional Intelligence, Empathy, Psychology and Human Behavior, Self-Awareness

Discover how cognitive empathy helps navigate complexity, resolve conflict, and build stronger connections in a divided world.

Article by Pavel Bukengolts
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Cognitive Empathy: Your Everyday Survival Tool
  • The article explores cognitive empathy: the ability to understand others’ perspectives rather than simply feel their emotions, positioning it as an essential skill for navigating today’s polarized, noise-filled world, with practical tips and real-life examples across workplace and personal contexts.
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Gamification or Manipulation? Understanding the Ethics of Engagement Loops

  • Behavioral Design, Ethical Design, Ethical UX Series, Product Design, UX Design

Examine the boundaries of engagement and envision the ideal ethical design.

Article by Tushar Deshmukh
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Gamification or Manipulation? Understanding the Ethics of Engagement Loops
  • The article examines the fine line between ethical gamification and psychological manipulation in UX design, contrasting harmful engagement loops, such as Snapchat streaks and casino-style mobile games, with genuinely empowering examples like Duolingo and Khan Academy, while offering designers a framework of ethical questions to ensure their work elevates users rather than exploits them.
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BOOK EXCERPT: The Infinity Machine

  • Artificial Intelligence, Future of AI, Innovation, LLM, Neuroscience, Technology

Find out why one of AI’s greatest minds spent years dismissing language models and what finally changed his mind.

Article by Sebastian Mallaby
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BOOK EXCERPT: The Infinity Machine
  • The excerpt traces Demis Hassabis‘s intellectual reversal on language and AI, from his founding belief that machines could never truly understand the world through words alone to his reluctant recognition that large language models have proven “unreasonably effective” at capturing the near-finite scope of human experience
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Cloze Test in Practice

  • Content Strategy, Mobile UX/Usability, UX Design

Discover what happens when we apply a cloze test to mobile.

Article by Paivi Salminen
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Cloze Test in Practice
  • The article applies a cloze test, a practical comprehension tool, to real mobile privacy policies from Duolingo and X, demonstrating how even seemingly simple text can collapse in readability on small screens, and why closing the gap between reading level and user comprehension matters for mobile content design.
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The Psychology of Defaults: How Pre-Selected Options Influence Behavior

  • Behavioral Design, Design Ethics, Ethical UX Series, Psychology and Human Behavior, User Psychology, UX Design

Find out how pre-selected options silently shape decisions, and what ethical designers must do about it.

Article by Tushar Deshmukh
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The Psychology of Defaults: How Pre-Selected Options Influence Behavior
  • The article argues that defaults quietly guide user decisions through inaction, making them far more powerful than most designers realize.
  • It highlights that they work by exploiting natural human tendencies like status quo bias and the assumption that pre-selected options are “recommended.”
  • The piece emphasizes that ethical design doesn’t eliminate defaults but uses them transparently, with user intent and easy reversibility at the core.
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