Just rediscovered this service we built a while back. Get videos to your Spotify songs!
SpotMyVideo -> http://spotmyvideo.com
The Spotify Play Button is pretty nice!
https://developer.spotify.com/technologies/spotify-play-button/
In the classic study students found a boring task more interesting if they were paid less to take part. Our unconscious reasons like this: if I didn’t do it for money, then I must have done it because it was interesting. As if by magic, a boring task becomes more interesting because otherwise I can’t explain my behaviour.
The mind is interesting.
How The Mind Really Works: 10 Counterintuitive Psychology Studies — PsyBlog
The ghosts of decisions past.
I think it’s easily happened that a decision get’s lost in the sea of decisions and stays there through iterations without anyone knowing why. And it’s fairly easy to conclude that if you made the decision once, there must have been a reason for it. Keeping better track of the whys can go a long way in identifying when assumptions have changed during the development process, leaving you with new conditions to make a better decision!
“I would envisage that with user research framed and phrased in the right way, observation, interviews and actual behavioural data, it would be possible to extract heuristics in a form which are useful for selecting design patterns to apply. While in the workshop we ‘decomposed’ existing systems without doing any real user research, doing this alongside would enable the heuristics extracted to be compared and discrepancies investigated and resolved. The redesigned system could thus match much better the heuristics being followed by users, or, if necessary, help to shift those heuristics to more appropriate ones.”
(via If… | Design with Intent)
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MSc Media Technology HCI
Usability lead, creating cool stuff @ Klarna
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