Don't be Biased

Human biases and why they matter in tech & design. A talk for TechSparks 2018.

Transcript

1. Don’t be biased! Biases and why they matter in tech & design @kingsidharth | TechSparks 2018
2. Behavioural Economics & Cognitive Psychology
3. Are you at 18 years or older? Enter Exit Ad Ad Ad Ad Ad Content? Nah bruh. Tis ad too.
4. Incentives & Re-enforcement The amount of ads you will tolerate is directly proportional to your libido Hacking the Reward Center
5. Game Theory Study of Incentives & Choices
6. Incels The reddit sub-culture that has produced 100s of mass-murderers
7. Why?
8. Denial Basis of Cults, Religions, & Aadhar
10. Man with a Hammer Syndrome Not everything is a design/tech/science/ math/scale problem…
11. Why do consultants get paid to say the obvious things?
12. Agency Cost Because you know & care too much…
13. Why do users hate most redesigns? or why do we all hate change?
14. Pavlovian Association Usability equals Convention equals Past experiences guide future behaviour
15. What you think What you do
16. What you think What you do
17. –Pink Floyd “If you don’t eat your meat, you won’t get any pudding. How can you get any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?”
18. Heuristics Rule of Thumbs, Common Accepted Knowledge
19. Heuristics when you take em too far blindly… Biases become
20. Those who break free from these biases become trend setters
21. Buzz Feed & Twitter Fights? What’s common between… and the Hacker News experiment
22. Reciprocation Friend of my friend is friend…
24. Why does Amazon always have a Sale? Answer: to boil a frog
25. Relative Contrast Bias from
26. Have you ever tried to snatch a bone out of a dog’s mouth? You want to test drive this car, m’am? Try FREE for 30 days…
27. Immediate Deprivation If I never had it, there was no loss. But give me and take it back; I feel it! Bias from
28. Why do people forward obviously stupid shit on WhatsApp?
29. How can people working towards the same goal disagree so much?
31. Information Availability/ Asymmetry Bias from Mother of The Dunning–Kruger Effect, Lord of the Valley of Despair
32. The Habit Loop Incentives
33. Instamojo Link Based Commerce
34. Trigger: Get Sale Action: Check Dashboard Reward: Money in Bank
35. Trigger: Get Sale Action: Check Dashboard Reward: Money in Bank Reward took T+3 days
36. Instant Payout Get money in bank 24x7
37. Trigger: Get Sale Action: Click Button Reward: Money in Bank Behavioural Economics FTW!
38. Next Day Payout For low-margin Businesses
39. Observe Behaviour, Biases, and the Self Because we build & design for humans
40. Thank You! Questions, comments, or threats? @kingsidharth