I'm having a hard time filtering the information with all those pictures, animations, pop ups, curvy lines and huge text.
Same here. I'm surprised how jarring the emjoi's are to my focus.
Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX
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Re: Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX
#32Ironic 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...
Removing the emojis in the ordered list at the top would be really helpful. My brain wouldn't let me properly read that simple list with them there. I get that they are trying to introduce the way-finding anchor link piece, but it really gets in the way of the content.
Hey psweber, thanks for the feedback.
You're right.
We checked our stats and barely 5% of people clicked on one of the pills at the top (under the list).
We just revised our intro and removed the colored pills. They were indeed a duplicate of the list. That'll be 50% less emojis and less color overload.
Cheers,
Re: Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX
#33Ironic 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 reading about these UX principles though. Is there another alternative, easier to read resource?
Re: Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX
#34Ironic 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...
Agreed. It's almost surreally lacking self-awareness. The very first entry is a warning not to display too many items, and it's immediately followed by a very very long list of items.
Most of which are still blank.
If you set out to parody poor UX - in fact poor UX culture - this is probably what it would look like.
I don't hate the textual content - not great, not terrible - but I do somewhat resent the fact that it's selling itself on disinterested helpfulness when it's also clearly harvesting emails, which I assume are going to be used for some other purpose/project.
Re: Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX
#35Earlier quoted context omitted.
Removing the emojis in the ordered list at the top would be really helpful. My brain wouldn't let me properly read that simple list with them there. I get that they are trying to introduce the way-finding anchor link piece, but it really gets in the way of the content.
Hey psweber, thanks for the feedback. You're right. We checked our stats and barely 5% of people clicked on one of the pills at the top (under the list). We just revised our intro and removed the colored pills. They were indeed a duplicate of the list. That'll be 50% less emojis and less color overload. Cheers,
Right on!
Re: Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX
#36Love your case studies, thanks for sharing this.
That's very kind, thanks Drew! :) Since we're only two indie hackers, honestly it was an insane amount of work to map the product examples and design the page. It's a good thing we found the work of Buster Benson a few days before we published. That allows us to split the biases in the four categories that he found. (Buster deserves a MAJOR kudos for that. His research summary was brilliant.)
I find this resource extremely valuable and useful! Thanks for putting it together! Saved in my dev journal :)
Re: Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
100% Abdullah. Behavioral psychology should be used for good. We've been in touch with Nir Eyal for a bit now. He wrote "Hooked", but quickly realized that the ethical side of behavioral psychology was misunderstood completely and started to focus his efforts there. We asked him for a quote because we believe this is extremely important (just Ctrl-F "Eyal" on the page you should find it). We also really like his "reg…
> He wrote "Hooked", but quickly realized that the ethical side of behavioral psychology was misunderstood That’s a charitable interpretation. He wrote a book about how to make products addictive (subtitle: How To Make Habit-Forming Products), then when the inevitable backlash came he got on that bandwagon and wrote a book to teach people how to be Indistractable (in a world filled with products designed to be habit-…
Thank you for your service.
Re: Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX
#38This feels like I'm being led to an eventual sales pitch. I don't think it is on deeper investigation, but it sure rubs me as the entry to a funnel.
We don't have any product to sell :/. We've been creating case studies for 15 months for people in 120 countries. All for free. The community has been asking us to build more even though we're strapped for time. The only way we could make that happen is if we start a premium subscription for those interested (but keep a foundation of free content of course). *edit: typo and clarification
Premium subscriptions are your product. If that's not something you're comfortable being honest about, I question the depth of your domain expertise in the areas for which your seeking "donations" to support.
Re: Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX
#39Ironic 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.
Re: Cognitive biases and principles that affect UX
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
ScholarPedia has lots of materials regarding these topics. Suggest you pay a visit
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 bounded rationality. "