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Back to SearchAlign Before Design: The Psychology of Strategic Alignment (with Tamara Adlin)
Season 1 Episode 23
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1 year ago
Why Games Work: Emotional Arcs, Flow States, and Meaningful Play (with Jesse Schell)
Season 1 Episode 22
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Why are games so deeply engaging? What psychological principles make game design such a powerful tool for shaping attention, emotion,…
1 year ago
Advance Without Alienating: How MAYA Drives Adoption
Season 1 Episode 21
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What is the sweet spot between new and familiar, and how do you design for it?
Create products that feel groundbreaking and instantly …
1 year, 1 month ago
Frontstage, Backstage: How Service Design Really Works (with Marc Stickdorn)
Season 1 Episode 20
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What’s the real impact of service design on customer experiences?
In this episode of The Design Psychologist, host Thomas talks with s…
1 year, 1 month ago
The Peak-End Rule in Design: What We Take Away
Season 1 Episode 19
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What shapes the memory of an experience, and how can designers use that insight to create better, more human-centered products?
Design…
1 year, 1 month ago
Less Load, More Learning: First Principles of Cognitive Load Theory (with John Sweller)
Season 1 Episode 18
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What’s the best way to choose how you’ll teach something so it actually sticks?
Design your next lesson so learners don’t just follow …
1 year, 1 month ago
Designing with Tension: What the Zeigarnik Effect Reveals About Memory and Momentum
Season 1 Episode 17
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Have you ever noticed how an unfinished task — or a cliffhanger at the end of a show — keeps tugging at your attention?
How can the Ze…
1 year, 2 months ago
Closing the Knowing-Doing Gap: Designing for Real Behavior Change (with Julie Dirksen)
Season 1 Episode 16
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Why is it so hard to change behavior—even when people already know exactly what to do?
Design your next learning experience so people …
1 year, 2 months ago
Order Matters—But Not the Way You Think: How Serial Position Gets Misused
Season 1 Episode 15
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In this episode, we uncover how the order in which information is presented affects what users remember—and what they forget. From th…
1 year, 2 months ago
From Vibes to Variables: How We’re Measuring the Unmeasurable in UX (with Bill Albert)
Season 1 Episode 14
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Why is it so hard to know whether people want to use what we design—not just whether they can?
Design research can (and should) go far…
1 year, 2 months ago