#psychology (66 links)
- Why humans can't navigate out of a paper bag - life - 18 August 2009 - New Scientist newscientist.com
Makes me want to stop using Google Maps.
- Milton Glaser - Ten Things I Have Learned miltonglaser.com
- Dunning-Kruger effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
"An example of cognitive bias in which "people reach erroneous conclusions and make unfortunate choices, but their incompetence robs them of the metacognitive ability to realize it". They therefore suffer an illusory superiority, rating their own ability as above average."
- Web Performance Matters - Journal - Acceptable Response Times webperformancematters.com
"The real question is not "What is the industry standard?" but rather "What response time will the users of my Web site or application find acceptable?"
- Design for Emotion and Flow - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
When attention becomes a scarce resource, it’s important to invest it wisely. Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention.
Registration keeps out good posters and attracts trolls? Who'd have thought that?
- Seth's Blog: Why word of mouth doesn't happen sethgodin.typepad.com
- Founder's Syndrome: How Corporations Suffer -- and Can Recover managementhelp.org
This syndrome occurs when, rather than working toward its overall mission, the organization operates primarily according to the personality of a prominent person in the organization, for example, the founder, board chair/president, chief executive, etc
"Pagulayan runs a testing lab for Bungie that looks more like a psychological research institute than a game studio. The room we're monitoring is wired with video cameras that Pagulayan can swivel around to record the player's expressions or see which but
- Creating Passionate Users: The Asymptotic Twitter Curve headrush.typepad.com
"If my Cingular cell phone sends me a MySpace alert and I'm not there to get it, do I exist? But email, IMs, social networking, and blogs are nothing compared to the thing that may finally cause time as we know it to cease. I'm talking, of course, about T
- Software by Rob : Becoming a Better Developer Part 9: How to Criticize a Software Developer Without Getting Punched softwarebyrob.com
The #1 rule of good criticism is be specific.
- New Scientist 11 steps to a better brain - Features newscientist.com
It doesn't matter how brainy you are or how much education you've had - you can still improve and expand your mind.