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General posts relating to user experience design.

Books UX designers should read

Here’s a list of 5 books UX designers should read, that are not about User Experience per se, but about behavioral economics, cognitive psychology or game theory. The list is from the Rajat Paharia video I shared yesterday. I have read Freakonomics and … Continue reading

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Game Dynamics in User Experience

In a recent post, I talked about “Gamifying Usability” citing an NPR story and Amazon’s user badges. Rajat Paharia of Bunchball has done a nice job in this 60 minute video distilling some useful practices for bring in game behavior … Continue reading

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LinkedIn Humor

I was on LinkedIn today and this is what they suggested as “People You May Know”: Perhaps they are testing something (April fools). In case you didn’t get the obscure physics reference, all three names are… interesting.

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