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Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX

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Re: Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX

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Thanks James! And thanks for sharing 31337. Never heard of ScholarPedia, just took a look. I know what James was referring to (a list of biases), but I couldn't find that on ScholarPedia. I also tried a dozen queries with individual cognitive biases and couldn't find most. Is there a sub-category that I missed?

Scholarpedia works differently than Wikipedia for searches. You need to figure the categories for each since they are mostly academic writings. For individual cognitive biases, You can have a look at Behavioral Operations by Stephanie Eckerd and Elliot Bendoly " In particular, cognitive psychology addresses (among other things) an individual's decision-making biases and use of heuristics as an attempt to overcome bou…

Oh, got it. Thanks!

Re: Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX

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Ironic the site has such a bad UX. Emoji make it hard to read; all the information is pointlessly in collapsing boxes, it has screwy animations and scrolling, crazy hover effects, bad zoom (it's blurry), silly checkmarks instead of bullet points...

It is indeed ironic. I was initially interested in the content, but I closed the site in less than a minute after getting frustrated by the emojis, blurry text and annoying sidebar and header animations when scrolling. I remember another site with similar content and also pretty annoying UX: https://lawsofux.com I'd take a long markdown document with a table of contents over this any day. I'm still interested in read…

Hey falafel, a popular alternative is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases . Hope that helps!

Re: Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX

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Ironic the site has such a bad UX. Emoji make it hard to read; all the information is pointlessly in collapsing boxes, it has screwy animations and scrolling, crazy hover effects, bad zoom (it's blurry), silly checkmarks instead of bullet points...

I had hoped that reader mode would work. But that was a mess too.

Hey 1ark, sorry to hear that. If you want a version that's more raw, feel free to check out https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cognitive_biases .

We have a raw database with many more principles, examples and tags, but we have yet to find a scalable way to share them.

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