Category: Decision making

Films about Designing for People

Films about Designing for People

This collection of movies provide an entertaining, and a potentially useful, complement to the textbook “Designing for People: An introduction to human factors engineering“. The films show examples of human factors design concepts in...

Nudging people to their limits

Nudging people to their limits

How Uber Uses Psychological Tricks to Push Its Drivers’ Buttons: Nudging drivers with goals, badges, and defaults. https://t.co/iqYoCRBXvE — John Lee (@Jdlee888) April 3, 2017

Calibrating confidence

Calibrating confidence

Debiasing: "anticipate three possible futures, establish three key objectives, and generate three viable options for each decision scenario" https://t.co/RtSOnBDWib — John Lee (@Jdlee888) April 28, 2017

Nudges are cost effective

Nudges are cost effective

Nudges much cheaper than education or financial incentives for societally significant behaviors: healthcare, retirement savings, energy use https://t.co/DD6ejP4vCy — John Lee (@Jdlee888) June 9, 2017

Avoiding distraction and procrastination

Avoiding distraction and procrastination

https://hbr.org/2017/10/5-research-based-strategies-for-overcoming-procrastination?utm_campaign=hbr&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social Reverse the triggers of procrastination so you can get to work