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Medium

Using the power of behavioral science to elevate User Experience (UX) design.

UX design success relies on engaging experiences aligned with user expectations

Knowledge of human behavior and psychology enhances design outcomes and user awareness [ more ]

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In-file UX documentation

It provides "Organizational memory".Especially in larger teams, folks end up solving the same problem multiple times, repeating mistakes, and not really learning from them
It helps new hires get up to speed.Making them more productive more quickly, and helping them integrate faster into the team
It generates greater autonomy among design and dev.

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If brands don't stand for something, they're talking to no one

Marcus Collins, a University of Michigan marketing professor and head of strategy at Wieden+Kennedy, has spent his career both studying and executing how brands can better utilize culture to connect with their audiences.In his new book For The Culture: The Power Behind What We Buy, What We Do, and Who We Want to Be, Collins reveals all that he's learned about how culture influences so many of our decisions, and how marketers can be more effective in tapping into it.

Medium

The Upper Class-Understanding Visual Hierarchy

Photo by Mike B: https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-in-brown-and-white-long-sleeve-shirt-holding-brown-wooden-stick-3795023/Have you ever gone to a website and tried to figure out what the hell to do?You know what your goal is, but you have no idea where to go or where to start.Eventually, you say to hell with it and play another round of Vampire Survivor.

Exchangewire

Marketing tech

Heineken Develops its First Globally-Tested Attention Measurement Campaign in Partnership with Teads and Dentsu

Teads, the global media platform, in partnership with Heineken and dentsu, today (7th December) announced findings from Heineken's first-ever globally-tested attention measurement campaign surrounding its official sponsorship at the renowned Rock in Rio 2022 music festival.Implemented in Brazil, the campaign's APM (Average Attention per 1,000 impressions measured in seconds) was found to be five times higher and view rate was two times higher (66%) than Lumen's benchmark on digital campaigns.

Medium

10 books by inspiring women to level up your product design skills

As a product designer, I've discovered that inspiration can come from anywhere, but the depth and guidance of books have been particularly insightful for me.In honor of International Women's Day, I've compiled a list of 10 books written by inspiring women that have helped me expand my skill set and fuel my creativity.

TechRepublic

Information security

In security, there is no average behavior

Doron Hendler, CEO and co-founder of RevealSecurity, explains the right way and the wrong way to detect malicious behavior.

cacm.acm.org

Surprising Study Finds Infants Outperform AI in 'Commonsense Psychology'

According to a new research study, infants outperform artificial intelligence in detecting what motivates other people's actions.Credit: SciTechDaily Infants outperform artificial intelligence in detecting what motivates other people's actions, finds a new study by a team of psychology and data science researchers.

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A sound you can't hear but may one day change your life

Undergoing clinical trials around the world is a brain surgery that doesn't need an incision or produce any blood yet drastically improves the lives of people with essential tremor, depression and more.The procedure, known as a focused ultrasound, aims sound waves at parts of the brain to disrupt faulty brain circuits causing symptoms.

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Myths and facts about treating a hangover

Editor's Note: Get inspired by a weekly roundup on living well, made simple.Sign up for CNN's Life, But Better newsletter for information and tools designed to improve your well-being.Are you celebrating the first day of 2023 with a hangover?If so, you might be looking for a method to ease your misery.

Fatherly

How To Be Attractive When You're Old and Ugly

Getting older can take the handsome right out of a guy.Every day becomes a battle with a body expanding faster than the universe, a face sinking under the weight fatigue, and a wardrobe transforming into a museum of stains.But it's possible to be a mess and still be - in a very specific light - attractive.

Fatherly

This Is What Your Kid Really Thinks About Your Beard

Beards have become an accessory to fatherhood that is as ubiquitous as an IPA or tactical diaper bag.But dads debating whether to beard or not to beard might want to consider that their kid finds them repulsive, according to new research.The findings sound like they've been commissioned by a razor or shaving cream company, but they're from a legitimate study of hundreds of children of all ages, published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior.

Fatherly

This Is the Exact Age When Babies Are at Their Cutest

Newborns are ugly.Surveys suggest we don't find babies particularly cute until 3 or even 6 months of age, when the awkward old man features give way to chubby cheeks and big eyes.They then remain at peak cuteness from 6 months until around age 4-and-a-half.But this raises a fascinating question.Why did we evolve to find infants and toddlers cuter than newborns?

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Prairie voles can find love without the 'love hormone' oxytocin, study finds

Prairie voles do not need oxytocin to form pair bonds, a new study finds.Nastacia Goodwin There's more to love than a single hormone.That's the conclusion of a study of prairie voles that were genetically altered to ignore signals from the "love hormone" oxytocin.The study, published in the journal Neuron, comes after decades of research suggesting that behaviors like pair-bonding and parenting depend on oxytocin.

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Science

A fossilized tooth may help solve the mystery of the Chincoteague ponies

The wild ponies roam on South Ocean Beach at Assateague Island.

Portland Mercury

Portland

The Human Disgrace

I'm sick of human behavior.I'm sick of human nature.I'm sick of humans.Unless I know you, you just aren't in my tribe.Unless you show kindness, I can't respect you.I'd love to have love for all.

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Medium

What UX Designers Should Learn in 2023

It goes without saying that UX design has become one of the most competitive fields in the last couple of years, which requires designers to constantly improve themselves and keep their industry knowledge up to date.In this article, I'll share some topics I recommend you look at and resources to study them.

Medium

Learn to design & develop-as a new or aspiring product manager

In part four of this series, I want to focus on reasons why learning to design and code is valuable for new or aspiring product managers.

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How to beat that New Year's hangover before it starts

Toasting the birth of the new year is an age-old ritual, and for many, so is that dreaded morning aftermath a hangover.What seemed like great fun at the time is now causing your hands to shake, your head to pound and your heart to race, not to mention other unpleasant symptoms such as dizziness, nausea, vomiting, light sensitivity and excruciating thirst.

Nytimes

Cars

More Rats. More Cars. More Rats in Cars.

Driving in the city is on the rise, but if New Yorkers think they can avoid rats this way, they are in for quite the surprise.

Portland Mercury

Reverse Evolution and MAGA

Evolution can be disrupted when the human brain evolves faster than biological processes, leading to society-driven behavior over biologically advantageous actions. [ more ]

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1 week ago

OMG science

ISS review Ariana DeBose shines in tense if contrived International Space Station thriller

Borders are invisible from space but idealism and harmony are fragile, especially in high-stress environments like the International Space Station. [ more ]

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OMG science

How to Keep Your Pets Safe During the Solar Eclipse

Pets can be stressed by large crowds and human behavior during solar eclipses.

Veterinarians emphasize the impact of human activity on pets during eclipse events. [ more ]

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OMG science

How Animals and Nature React to an Eclipse

Humans exhibit various intriguing behaviors during a total solar eclipse.

Ionospheric changes during an eclipse can lead to disruptions in radio signals and GPS navigation systems. [ more ]

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Slate Magazine

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Writing

I Found the Perfect Place to Watch People Humiliate Themselves Online. It Thrills and Haunts Me.

Discovering Reddit communities can shed light on human behavior and offer new perspectives. [ more ]

Calm Sage - Your Guide to Mental and Emotional Well-being

Mental health

All You Need To Know About Holism In Psychology

Holism in psychology emphasizes viewing things as a whole

Holism is about understanding the interconnectedness of different components [ more ]

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2 months ago

Relationships

Freudenfreude Might Be Just What Your Friendships Are Missing

Developing freudenfreude can improve friendships

Comparison between oneself and others is a natural but improvable instinct [ more ]

Hubspot

Online marketing

Steve Jobs' 3 Powerful Persuasion Tactics, and How You Can Use Them to Win Customers

Steve Jobs, the iconic co-founder of Apple, was a master of persuasion.His ability to convince billions of people to buy his products at premium prices was no coincidence.While technical innovations and relentless advertising played a role, the true secret to his success lay in the persuasive techniques that he employed.

Streetsblog San Francisco

SF politics

Q&A: Councilmember Fife has had it with Oakland's Dangerous Streets

"I'm willing to go all the way to keep people safe" says District 3 Oakland City Councilmember Carroll Fife

Councilmember Carroll Fife and advocate Dave Campbell at a demonstration and vigil for safe streets in June 2022.Photo: Streetsblog/Rudick
Note: GJEL Accident Attorneys regularly sponsors coverage on Streetsblog San Francisco and Streetsblog California.

KQED

Margaret Atwood's 'Old Babes in the Wood' Tackles What It Means to Be Human

Old Babes in the Wood contains 15 stories, some of which have previously appeared in The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.The collection is divided into three parts.The first and last, titled "Tig & Nell" and "Nell & Tig," revolve around a married couple and look, more or less, at their entire lives - what they've done and felt, the people that left a mark on them, their thoughts.

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Margaret Atwood's 'Old Babes in the Wood' tackles what it means to be human

Margaret Atwood, without a doubt one of the greatest living writers, is best known for her incredibly successful and award-winning novels The Handmaid's Tale and, more recently, The Testaments.However, she is also an extraordinary short story writer and Old Babes in the Wood, her first collection in almost a decade, is a dazzling mixture of stories that explore what it means to be human while also showcasing Atwood's gifted imagination and great sense of humor.

The Paris Review

Only Style Survives: On Chateaubriand - The Paris Review

I lie in bed until the voice says Get up and live, then I put on my slippers and read my usual ten pages of Chateaubriand over breakfast.Why Chateaubriand?Because it is an impossibly long book, and long out of fashion, because Baudelaire claimed him, in a letter to Sainte-Beuve, as the father of dandyism, because Proust heard in Chateaubriand's style the fragile echoing call of an owl in the woods at night, because the book I want to write seems to me as impossible.

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8 Spanish authors you need to know DW 10/18/2022

Once again, it's time for the world's biggest book fair, the Frankfurt Book Fair, and this year Spain is the festival's country of honor.

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Fantasy grifter 'Kalyna the Soothsayer' will charm her way into your heart

The fantasy archetype of the soothsayer is often a supporting character, trotted out or journeyed to for a crucial yet standalone scene in which she provides some context or clue to the hero about how everything will turn out.

Business Insider

Artificial intelligence

Companies are latching onto the hot new AI trend. The feds are warning they're watching for false claims.

The FTC warned companies to avoid overselling their AI products in a blog post on Monday.It called AI a "hot marketing" term that some companies won't be able to stop themselves from "abusing."Since ChatGPT made headlines in November, several companies have announced their own AI efforts.

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Artificial intelligence

Ai Weiwei on China's protests DW 12/02/2022

32 minutes ago32 minutes ago DW spoke to Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei about the protests in China against extreme pandemic lockdowns.Renowned Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei, who currently lives in Portugal with his Chinese wife and their child, sees China's reaction to the pandemic over the past three years as the "most stringent constraints on human behavior in Chinese history and in human history," which are restricting human rights and personal autonomy, he told DW in an email interview.

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Design

The Italian Designers Who Reinvented the Sofa Are Still Sitting on Top

CHAIRS ARE ARCHITECTURE, sofas are bourgeois, the Swiss French architect Le Corbusier reportedly once said.A forefather of the clean-lined Modernism that defined European architecture in the decades following the First World War, he shunned decoration in favor of spare and functional forms, famously proclaiming that a house is a machine for living in.

Fatherly

What Are Your Values? 7 Questions To Help Define Them

Hey buddy - quick question: What are your values?It's an innocent ask but the answer might make you a bit defensive.You probably think that you have values.Wait, you know you have values.You have lots of them - good ones.You just keep them to yourself, but when you say them out loud ...
Well, there's the problem.

Fatherly

What Is A Sigma Male? Unpacking The Latest In Male Archetypes

If you divide men into the alphas and betas - the old binary system that pits charismatic, bullying alphas against compliant little betas - the 22 other letters of the Greek alphabet present an interesting problem.

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Science

The zombie fungus from 'The Last Of Us' is real but not nearly as deadly

In the video game and HBO show The Last of Us, an infectious fungi turns humans into zombies.David McNew/Getty Images In the video game and HBO show The Last of Us, humans struggle to survive after an infectious fungus turns ordinary people into zombies.Creators of the franchise didn't look far for inspiration the series is based off a real-life species of fungus that performs a kind of "mind control" on its insect hosts.

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Parenting

Opinion | Trans Kids Deserve Private Lives Too

Last year, I interviewed Marci Bowers, president of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health, for a piece I never ended up writing about youth gender transition.A trans woman, Bowers is a surgeon and a gynecologist who has both delivered thousands of babies and performed thousands of vaginoplasties; one of her patients was the trans reality star Jazz Jennings.

Bustle

Do Green Powders Work As Well As TikTok Says They Do? Nutritionists Weigh In

You may have seen people on TikTok or Instagram sipping on a glass of green-colored water.These elixirs are spiked with the wildly popular green powders, a supplement of sorts that has become viral on social media thanks to its purported health benefits.Scroll through the hashtag #greenpowder - which has racked up over 2.5 billion views on TikTok - and you'll see videos of users raving about the product's ability to reduce bloating, boost immunity, clear skin, and provide you with a hefty dose of vitamins and antioxidants.

Portland Mercury

Portland

The Banana and The Beard

Human behavior is already quite idiotic but check these two other morons I spotted riding around on Trimet.BananaMan.He sits down sideways in the back near me, all alone.He eats a banana.Oh, also, he won't take off his backpack, and his legs are all blocking the aisle while he's on a video game.When the bus stops, he goes to the back door and tosses the banana peel onto the street.

TechRepublic

Information security

How to improve security awareness and training for your employees

Just training people periodically using generic content won't help them or your organization reduce the risk of security threats, says Egress.Security training is often touted as one of the best ways to combat phishing attacks, malware and other security hazards.The thinking is that your employees won't fall victim to these types of threats if only they understood how to detect them.

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Wellness

Sadder but Wiser? Maybe Not.

Forty-three years ago, two young psychologists, Lauren B. Alloy and Lyn Y. Abramson, reported the results of a simple experiment that led to a seminal idea in psychology.

Advocate

Public health

Unvaccinated People 14 Times More Likely to Get Monkeypox

(CNN) - Eligible individuals who did not receive the monkeypox vaccine were around 14 times likelier to become infected with the virus than those who were vaccinated, according to federal government data described to CNN by multiple US health officials.

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Film

I'm Afraid of Other People and Myself: Christian Tafdrup on Speak No Evil | Interviews | Roger Ebert

I often get ideas that would fit well for comedies or satire.That's what I'm familiar with: looking at the awkwardness of human behavior.

The Marginalian

Inspiration

3 Things to Learn from a Child, 7 from a Thief: Bob Dylan's Favorite Hasidic Teaching

Just before Christmas in 1977, the thirty-six-year-old Bob Dylan sat down for a long conversation with Jonathan Cott.

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