Category Archives: Psychology

Stephen Anderson’s Mental Notes Card Deck

Jun
02
2010

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mental notes cards

Stephen Anderson is a user experience designer whose talk on ‘seductive interactions’ has created a lot of discussion in the field of interactive design. Continue reading →

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The Psychologist’s View of UX Design

May
19
2010

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Psychologist and cognitive scientist Dr. Susan Weinschenk explains how her science informs UX design.

You may have heard this story about an elephant:
A king brings six men into a dark building. … Continue reading →

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Social science meets computer science at Yahoo!

Jan
13
2010

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The San Francisco Chronicle published an interesting article on Monday about how “Yahoo Labs has bolstered its ranks of social scientists, adding highly credentialed cognitive psychologists, economists and ethnographers from top universities around the… Continue reading →

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Methodology or Mythology?

Feb
26
2004

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Methodology Madness: or “caveat emptor” (buyer beware) What you buy or “buy into” influences how you think about something and how you represent that information in your mind is what cognitive scientists refer to as an “internal representation”. Whethe… Continue reading →

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