psychology

My attempt to improve the usability checklistHeuristic Evaluation checklist.xlsxThe product design has moved from traditional legacy applications to the web, mobile, AR, and VR...

Human Bias in Machine LearningWhat it means in our modern big data worldBias is an inescapable part of human nature. Previous research suggests that cognitive biases form to...

User research for designing better productsImage resource: https://www.pexels.com/photo/people-coffee-meeting-team-7096/The love of understanding other humans and my passion for...

Photo by Amaury Salas on UnsplashWe are all no strangers to experiential learning; ie learning by doing. To put it simply, we learn from experience. In fact, Aristotle himself...

We live in a world where everything is on social media. Everyone has a Facebook account and everyone searches on Google. Most of us have Instagram accounts and write our thoughts...

Miller’s Law is a recurrent lesson taught in design schools and repeated from designers to designers. The way is formulated asserts that human can only remember about to seven...

inuyasha2012/pypsy psychometrics package, including MIRT(multidimension item response theory), IRT(item response theory),GRM(grade response theory),CAT(computerized adaptive...

Photo by Aaron Burden on UnsplashIt’s maybe a strange way to start an article, though the few that know my work know that I see “Strange” as “Relative”. But if you have...

I recently came across this sentence, “Our users know what they are looking at” from a very experienced designer. The question I have most of the time when a given design is,...

Photo by Jordan Madrid on UnsplashOne of the many reasons I love the dynamics of my work and the environments I do them in is the intensity of those fields and those within them...

ajwills72/catlearn Formal Psychological Models of Categorization and Learning Language: RStars: 7Forks: 2Watchers: 7Open issues: 0Created at: 2018-07-19 22:30:04Updated...

Empathy for UX designersHow to use Empathy effectively in the designDesign is always changing. Complex needs and goals of humans create complex problems that need effective...

Photo by Josh Riemer on UnsplashIntroductionWhile there are many human mechanisms used to determine our interactions with the outside world, one of the most important is memory....

The Sentimentr package for R is immensely helpful when it comes to analyzing text for psychological or sociological studies. Its first big advantage is that it makes sentiment...

In 2014, my dad’s family doctor told him he was pre-diabetic. That meant he was on the path to diabetes but it wasn’t too late to turn things around. If he ate a bit better...

A short story about Alice.Alice is happily coding away in scope of her Javascript task at work. When suddenly she has to loop over an array. Alice thinks for a bit about...

Disclaimer: The following is a brief reaction to a piece of writing, not an in-depth analysis or thesis defending any particular claim. Unfortunately, I will need to point out...

Have you ever noticed who were the most generous philanthropists in the recent history? The greediest fat cats were. Bankers, billionaires, rich celebrities, that is to say the...

Imposter syndrome written in a book. Image from PexelsI remember when I first heard the term imposter syndrome at a conference and it was a real revelation for me; in a room full...

The word empathy first appeared in the English language over 100 years ago; from the German word einfühlung, which means “feeling into”. Originally, it was used to refer to...