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Psychological principles as they relate to user interface and user experience design.

Psychological principles like gestalt principles, intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation (also applied as gamification) and set completion are ways to use psychology to affect user behaviour.

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Why do some apps feel "heavy" while others feel "light"?

I have come up with a new concept and that is that every application or interface has a 'heavyness factor'. Let me give you an example: Google chrome feels 'light', it loads fast, doesn't take long to perform various functions etc etc. Firefox feels…
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How do drunk users act?

What effect does alcohol have on user behaviour? Alcohol is a part of many Western cultures and it's entirely possible that some of our applications will be used by people who have had a drink or two. But how does that fact influence our…
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What's the difference between what's best for the user and that what the user is used to?

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How important it is to consider the background of audience while designing a web GUI?

While we have to develop web applications for general public, sometimes it happens that we have to target a specific type of audience. I'll use a theoretical use case to elaborate my question: A developer is building a web application which will…
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Is UX Cognitive, Behavioral or Cognitive Behavioral?

I had this conversation with my wife yesterday as we discussed an article I am writing. I asked her about the psychological frameworks that measure cognitive events from priming, specifically within Gestalt Theory. My question was whether the common…
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Cross product YES-NO answer model

I was just thinking, many questionnaires model yes/no answers as one or the other, with some logicians using fuzzy logic to describe situations in between. I wonder though, if yes and no were regarded as different emotions rather than as just…
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Studies on button text for agreement?

We have an application, that due to factors outside of our control (legal/regulatory), has some very complex rule sets. Because of this, we need users to read a short amount of context on a modal the first time they hit a specific page, about…
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For user confirmation, is it more standard to use "Y" or "N" to denote continuing execution?

This is a question about best practice, not a specific language/ syntax question. When requesting user confirmation, e.g. Y/N to either continue execution despite some risky condition or exit to fix said condition, is it preferable to use Y or N…
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