You think you’re just like everyone else. You think your thoughts, opinions, values, and habits are just the same as other people. Psychology calls this the false consensus bias1 because we assume much more commonality than reality warrants. False consensus
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What happens in the end-to-end experience? Can the intended audience find what they’re looking for? What is the actual problem being solved? Are you designing the right product for the customer need? Information architecture, accessibility, findability, taxonomy, interaction design, research, usability, case studies, interviews, surveys, and more.
Designing for Meaningful Social Interactions
The age of cheap “like”-hunting needs to come to an end. It all started innocently enough with likes and tweets. Then in a few years, we suddenly ended up with governments scoring people and masses manipulated into meaningless activities to
Continue readingContent Recommendations and the Creation of Emotions
This article investigates content recommender systems. Because Netflix is probably the best known recommendation system and numerous articles have been published about their system, I will concentrate on their content recommendation mechanism as representative of the type. I will show
Continue readingCase Study: How to Build a Digital User Experience Monitoring System
Most software user experience and product management teams have similar questions: How do users feel about our products? How is our product experience changing over time? How do users feel about a recent change we’ve made in the product? Our
Continue readingTying in Augmented Reality and Virtual Reality to Your Brand’s Digital Presence
Just as you had mastered SEO, social media, and original content, along come platforms that threaten to disrupt all previous branding experiences. According to a survey by Greenlight Insights, 53% of respondents said they would be more inclined to purchase
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