Let me begin with a prescriptive statement: major social media companies ought to consult with trained social researchers to design interfaces, implement policies, and understand the implications o…

Once in a while we feel the need to write about an uncomfortable feeling that's been niggling us. This post is one. It expresses a discomfort we have about so-called

"The Influential Mind" introduces less-than-intuitive tactics for changing beliefs and behaviors.

You can build it, but should you?

As a designer I’ve spent the last decade translating human needs and desires into experiences that fulfill them, and I’m convinced : the…

Over the past few decades, the boundaries between the public (government), private (business), and social (non-profit) sectors have been blurring as many pionee

“What can we help you with today?”

Today’s guest is a repeat visitor to the show whose last episode proved to be one of our most popular. Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke Un

It's Your World. Sexual Violence Doesn't Belong in It.

It's a way of quantifying a friendship, and it has a dark side.

The Smile Mirror features a built-in camera and facial recognition technology that only shows your reflection if you smile.

Challenge implicit biases by identifying your own, teaching colleagues about them, observing gap-closing teachers, stopping "tone policing," and tuning into such biases at your school.

What you think you believe and what your unconscious associations reveal about your beliefs are often very different.

A while back I wrote something which made a number of people angry: Any new social structure must throw off surplus that people can live on, and that surplus must not be able to be bought up by the old system, which will seek to do so. The ban against selling out/being bought out must be irrational and ideological. Rational people

Sean Parker, the founding president of Facebook, gave me a candid insider's look at how social networks purposely hook and potentially hurt our brains.

When Amsterdam removed signals from a busy junction, it made journeys faster and interactions more pleasant. Now the approach is being copied across the city

Here's all 188 cognitive biases in existence, grouped by how they impact our thoughts and actions. We also give some specific cognitive bias examples.

Free enterprise capitalism is the most powerful system for social cooperation and human progress ever conceived. It is one of the most…

His distinction captures a remarkable fact for those of us who keep our email tabs open all day: email allows anyone to interrupt you, at any time, for any reason. Imagine describing the analogous…

Silicon Valley, you used to be the envy of the world. Over the last decade I’ve seen countless cities try to become you. In case you haven’t noticed, though, you’ve changed from hero to villain. You're too expensive and exclusive for the rest of the world. You've moved from icon to joke -- the show that bears your name is a cringe-worthy, true-to-life satire.

Using your UX Super Powers for Good or Evil - Theo Mandel, PhD, UXPA 2015 Conference. Updated presentation on User Experience Design - from Golden Rules and Pa…

Aims to be the biggest checklist of inclusive design considerations ever - Heydon/inclusive-design-checklist

The French are putting legal limits on being “on.”

A data collection service called SafeGraph collected 17 trillion location markers for 10 million smartphones during the holiday last year.

Researchers watch publishers watching you, ignore privacy settings, run over mere HTTP

Data science seems to be computer people trying to do social sciences without learning the foundations of our scientific approaches.— Laura Linda Laugwitz (@lauralindal) November 6, 2017

In experience design, friction is usually the opposite of being intuitive or effortless. However, that doesn't mean that it's always bad for the users. In this article, you'll learn when and how friction can be an efficient tool to actually design better experiences.