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You can partially defeat habituation effects of warnings if you change the warnings' visual appearance.
Amazon and Google are happy to give users the option to pause tracking. Why can’t we stop it entirely?
Dick pics to unsuspecting people nearby.
U[unprintable glyph]: The elements a higher power uses to bend that moral arc. U[even more unprintable glyph]: The higher power's overall experience bending that moral arc.
Any time I’m confronted with a standard GDPR privacy warning on a web site, I reflexively click the option to accept cookies and move on. Recently though, while reading an article at The Times of L…
Facebook’s tone-deaf response to a woman who continued to be bombarded by parenting ads after her son was stillborn highlights big tech’s bro-gramming problem
Computers are bad at taking no for an answer. This is a problem.
Silicon Valley’s most successful tech companies use the insights of behaviour design to pump us with dopamine and keep us returning to their products. But, as Ian Leslie learns, some of the psychologists who developed the science of persuasion are worried about the way it is being used
Opinion: Science shows the sound of TV streaming or a chip reader blaring can be as distressing as nails on a chalkboard.
Many users report anxiety and lack of control over the amount of time they spend online. We call this feeling “the Vortex.”
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Example of bloated website in 2018
The very first time I interacted with a computer was through this screen:
User experience and performance are aligned–in theory. Jason Lengstorf gets into the paradox of how the steps we take to make things easier for our users might actually be making things worse for t…
Abstract. In recent years, research into gender differences has established that individual differences in how people problem-solve often cluster by gender. Res
This is the second part in a series on enhancing mobile forms for users. In the [first part](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/08/ux-html5-mobile-form-part-1/), we saw some general guidelines on how to improve form readability for mobile users, label placement and size, interaction cost and dealing with errors.
Ethical OS Toolkit As technologists, it’s only natural that we spend most of our time focusing on how our tech will change the world for the better. Which is great. Everyone loves a sunny disposition. But perhaps it’s more useful, in some ways, to consider the glass half empty. What