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Understanding User Psychology: Thinking Like a Game Designer

Sachin Rekhi

[This is the third post in my Understanding User Psychology series. If you haven't already, make sure to check out Meet Your Happy Chemicals and The Psychology of Persuasion.]. Game design always starts with an understanding of player motivation. Motivation. Player Types.

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Mastering the Mind Game: How Priming Shapes Your Online Experience

UX Planet

Introduction Priming, a psychological phenomenon with profound implications in UX design, involves the subconscious activation of specific concepts or mental representations, influencing subsequent behavior or perception. Iconography: Icons can act as powerful primes, conveying meaning and facilitating user interaction.

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Imagining the Future of Generative AI for UX

UX Planet

Predicting the future of Gen AI for UX research and design We talk a lot about the pros and cons of current AI tools and how to apply them in our daily work as UX designers. A singular tool that incorporates UX research and design Now we have different Gen AI tools that target specific areas. Let’s start!

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Design Challenges: Designers Demand Reform as Unfair Tasks Miss the Mark (part II)

UX Planet

Examining the ethical, psychological, and practical concerns surrounding design challenges, and advocating for a more inclusive, human centered and effective approach to evaluating designers. Objective and/or Scientific Foundations of Designers Complaints 5. What designers wants? Background context 2. Findings 4.

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Behavioural Design Case Study: Headspace

The Product Coalition

Image courtesy: www.boldbusiness.com While Consumer App Designers have begun to increasingly use the understanding of human psychology to make their Apps more ‘effective’ in achieving their goals, its ultimate impact on users’ life is debatable. A pioneer in the literature related to Habit-forming products.

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The Dark Side of Product Management — Addictive Products

Userpilot

Sometimes the same psychological devices we use to make our SaaS products engaging can also make the products really…addictive. Facebook, Netflix , LoL and Thunderbird were designed not only by engineers and product managers, but by smart psychologists who have basically hacked human nature. Why are Some Products Addictive?

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The Two Crucial Steps for Successful Mobile User Engagement

The Product Coalition

Getting mobile app communications right can uplift your user engagement and conversions. This kind of engagement is measured with user activity metrics such as DAU, MAU, and stickiness rate. Before arriving at these points, a user has absorbed the educational information you delivered and seen the value of your app in theory.