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Biases and their effects in UX Design

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Neuroscience, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Different biases and ways they can produce a positive experience using biases in UX design

Article by Alanna Bent
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Biases and their effects in UX Design
  • The author shares her perspective on the following biases and their effects in UX Design:
    • Motivational biases (the Ego-enhancing bias and The Effective Control bias)
    • Cognitive biases (Salience Availability, Preconceptions, and Anchoring and Perseverance)
  • Biases in UX Design:
    • The Anchoring bias
    • The Framing bias
  • Understanding the psychology of the human mind is vital in creating clean, well organized and user-friendly designs.
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The REAL reason the Unconscious holds you back

  • Behavioral Science, Emotion, Neurology, Neuroscience, UX Magazine
Article by Kaushik Ram
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The REAL reason the Unconscious holds you back
  • The unconscious is not made up of thought but dictate behaviours that happen automatically and these are behaviours you may not be aware of.
  • Some of the ways that we unconsciously deflect attention and prevent ourselves from being seen:
    • Humour
    • Sarcasm
    • Intellectualism
    • Perfectionism
    • Isolation
  • The unconscious exists because the brain is a metabolically expansive structure.
  • The Ego and two things that are inherently wrong with working with the ego:
    1. When you invent a desired ego in an attempt to hide your mistakes.
    2. It is not healthy to keep things smooth and under control.
  • The problem with reprogramming the unconscious mind is subjecting the unconscious to see a certain way ****— essentially fabricating a new ego.
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UX and Evangelism: Undoing What’s Undoing UX

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Empathy, Neuroscience, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

UX/CX aren’t what other people think them to be. Learn the truth about UX Evangelism and how the reliance on an approach to workshops, design thinking and empathy might stop you from being a true customer-centered UX/CX professional.

Article by Debbie Levitt
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UX and Evangelism: Undoing What’s Undoing UX
  • This article presents two key pieces of advice on how to undo what’s undoing us:
    • Stop relying on an approach to workshops.
    • Look at old and current projects.
  • How do we raise CX and UX maturity?
    • Shift away from making UX look easy.
    • Talk about money and time.
  • How to start undoing what’s undoing us:
    • Stop doing Aspirology workshops
    • Promote different versions of design sprints
    • Get rid of design thinking
  • Great design decisions are all about the knowledge designers can generate through proper research and the actions that we choose to take based on that research.
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UX and decision making

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Neuroscience, Psychology and Human Behavior, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

An insight into the relationship between various brain models, decision making and UX

Article by Sreya Majumdar
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UX and decision making
  • Your brain does a lot of things when you try to make a decision, here are some of them:
    • Survival instinct — human species have evolved physically as well as mentally and always adapt to their environment to survive.
    • Wiring — the pre-existing knowledge and emotions associated with the information create deeper belief systems which dictate how the user feels, thinks and responds.
    • Biases — humans begin to learn through the loop of prediction ↔ correction and this process helps reduce uncertainties.
    • Design — designers need to tap into psychological mechanisms and predict irrationalities and decision-making patterns (without being coloured by our own biases).
    • Choice architecture — limiting choices can cause discomfort to the users.
  • When making a decision, we can:
    • Present choices in a way that would not require much cognitive effort.
    • Cater to the users’ needs and biases (conscious and subconscious).
    • Drive action.
    • Appeal to the emotion of the user.
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The Fascinating Psychology Tricks That Make WORDLE So Addictive

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Neuroscience, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

The secrets behind the world’s obsession. Learn what psychology and behavioral science principles make Worlde so addictive.

 

Article by Jennifer Clinehens
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The Fascinating Psychology Tricks That Make WORDLE So Addictive
  • There are certain things that make WORDLE so addictive:
    • Wordle uses Scarcity to stand out.
    • When you share a Wordle, people notice.
    • Sharing Wordle makes sharing your results across social media incredibly easy.
  • How Wordle creates a habit — the “Habit Loop” describes the basic structure behind every habit:
    1. The trigger
    2. The routine
    3. The reward
  • Wordle would have never become as popular as it is without psychology and behavioral science principles at work in the game.
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5 Reasons Why Designing Simple Experiences is Psychologically Impossible

  • Behavioral Science, Customer Experience, Design, Design Theory, Neuroscience, Usability, UX Education, UX Magazine

Simple is exponentially harder than complex, namely because there’s a psychological chasm that most teams cannot surpass… or perhaps they have not been setup to succeed.

Article by Joe Smiley
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5 Reasons Why Designing Simple Experiences is Psychologically Impossible
  • Designing simple and seamless experiences is exponentially harder than designing complex solutions
  • Simple solutions require an extraordinary amount of time, money, and skill
  • Other obstacles to simple design include complexity bias, loss aversion, unpredicted behavior, and fear of risks
Read the full article to learn more about the psychology behind designing a simple experience.
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