Cognitive Bias and the Design Process

Don't just design the happy path

Edition 048 of Design Insight

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📃 3 Articles

Creativity Faucet: How to generate more ideas

The article in 3 ideas:

1. You need to get the bad ideas (the wastewater) out before you get to the good ideas (the clear water).

2. Don't be judgmental or overly critical of your bad ideas. Accept them and realize they will lead to great ideas over time.

3. This approach can be applied to many areas from writing, content creation, to design. Get out the 'bad ideas' onto paper to give your mind time to construct good ideas.

Creativity Faucet: How to generate more ideas ➜

Cognitive Bias and the Design Process

The article in 3 ideas:

1. If you’re only considering one perspective, your data becomes less reliable.

2. When you only focus on the happy path you’re not learning how the design responds when things fail.

3. You’ll know when you have enough information to make an informed decision when you have a clear idea of the problem and enough information to work on the solution.

Cognitive Bias and the Design Process ➜

Make It Fun: Chaos in Product Design

The article in 3 ideas:

1. The more efficient a product is, the less fun it becomes.

2. Wabi-Sabi is a Japanese worldview centered around imperfection.

3. Designing fun products requires design systems that account for chaos.

Make It Fun: Chaos in Product Design ➜

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🔨 2 Tools/Resources

Nira ➜

A free tool for recoloring SVG images.

Typewar ➜

Battle to see who knows their typefaces better.

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🎨 1 Design Tip

Design Tip

Jim Raptis 🇺🇦 @d__raptis

And two extra rule of thumb examples... Use toggles for action that will take effect instantly and include turn on/off states. eg. turn on Bluetooth, WiFi, Airplane mode, Hotspot, Torch, etc.

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Michelle

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