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🔎 11 Ways To Research Potential Employers Online
There is no one perfect employer for all. Every person has different preferences and may be looking for different things when they evaluate a company to join.
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UX Career Podcast -> My SoulTeam - UX Talks Podcast
Quick update on the podcast
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🔮 The future of UX Career and My SoulTeam
The reveal 😎 A big change. A bigger vision 🚀
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MST 2.0 Announcement (repost from Mailchimp)
The main value proposition of the new platform is to help UX and Product designers of the world find the right team for them.
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A new announcement is coming!
I had to clarify some other priorities, and I will be making a new announcement soon.
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#23: Taking a break from writing, Q&A with Rabiya Samji
I've been feeling burnout-like symptoms more prominently in the last few months.
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#22: IKEA effect, designing for deaf people, Q&A with Phil Kneer
🧠 Cognitive biases
IKEA effect
Consumers place a disproportionately high value on products they partially created.
Research showed that raising consumers&
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#21: Observer effect, Designing for colour-blind people, Q&A with Sarah McVean
One very curious example showing this effect was conducted in the early 1900s when it was claimed that a horse could perform some mental tasks (e.g. arithmetics) when a formal investigation revealed that the horse was looking at the trainer’s reactions.
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#20: Q&A with Andy Liu, Curse of knowledge, Designing for people with low vision
Do not rely only on colour to communicate information. Users can change colours to something that works best for them. Important information must be represented in the text.
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#19: Q&A with Vince Kwok, Self-serving bias, Designing for blind people
Another common example is when a student receives a good grade they think it’s because they studied hard and put in a lot of work.
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"Get Hired in UX" Manual
I am thinking of creating a manual that would help UX folks land a job faster.
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#18: Q&A with Jaybe Allanson, The Tail End
I realized that my life was too short to be unhappy at a job and that nobody else but me would protect my own sanity.
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#17: Podcast episode #2, No one cares about your opinion, Hot hand and Sunken cost fallacies
There is often a perception that the player who has been scoring a lot of points earlier in the game will keep doing so later in the game, aka being on a roll, aka winning streak.
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#16: Podcast announcement, Gambler's fallacy, Faulty generalization
The term originated in this casino back in 1913 when an extremely rare event happened - the ball fell in back 26 times in a row.
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#15: Time machine saves lives, Zero-sum bias, Time-saving bias
It turns out a lot of people underestimate the time saved when they drive at a slow speed comparing to the higher speed.
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#14: Status quo bias, Ambiguity effect
The human brain is very lazy and always tries to find ways to simplify things for itself =) which, by the way, leads us to innovate and optimize.
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#13: Rhyme-as-reason effect, Subjective validation
People want to find truth in such statements because they wish it was true about themselves.
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#12: Belief bias, Illusory truth effect
It is easier to process and accept statements that are being repeated than the ones that are new.