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How cognitive biases influence user’s decisions

Ux in Lux
February 20, 2021

How cognitive biases influence user’s decisions

We build a 52 cards deck to present cognitive biases.
These cards were created for teaching purposes. They help team members become aware of their own biases and the different biases they can induce, whether on purpose or not, to users.
They can also be used as a cheat sheet and as “reminder cards” while designing. You can use them in small workshops with your coworkers to raise awareness among your team.
The print cards: https://stephaniewalter.design/blog/52-ux-cards-to-discover-cognitive-biases/
The Miro board: https://miro.com/app/board/o9J_lTAfbaE=/?moveToWidget=3074457354758140100&cot=14

Contact us if you want us to present the cards and the workshop at your event :) (mail on the last slide)

Ux in Lux

February 20, 2021
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  1. Welcome to the webinar! We are UX designers and we

    (usually) propose UX workshops in Luxembourg!
  2. What’s the plan? 1. What are cognitive biases? 2. It’s

    scary, so we created some cards 3. Going further... Schedule 🦄
  3. Cognitive biases are psychological tendencies that cause the human brain

    to draw incorrect conclusions. For better or worse, we can use them in many different ways to influence user behavior on your websites and apps. Definition
  4. “ IF I don’t book now, there will not be

    any room left for me 😱 (Scarcity + loss aversion) 🦄
  5. As designers (and as customers), it’s also interesting to be

    aware of such biases. For instance, some of them might influence your user research without you even knowing it. Definition
  6. A 52 cards deck you can print and use An

    online webapp list to help you inpx.it/52-cards inpx.it/cobias-webapp
  7. Decision-making & behavior These biases affect people's decision-making abilities, behaviour

    and the decisions they make based on the different information they get. 🦄
  8. Anchoring The tendency for people to depend too heavily on

    an initial piece of information offered (considered to be the "anchor") when making decisions. Those objects near the anchor tend to be assimilated toward it and those further away tend to be displaced in the other direction.
  9. IKEA Effect The tendency for people to place a disproportionately

    high value on objects that they partially assembled themselves, such as furniture from IKEA, regardless of the quality of the end product. 🦄
  10. Thinking & problem solving These biases can change the way

    people think or solve problems and lead them to come up with wrong conclusions.
  11. Fear of Missing out The fear experienced by individuals when

    faced with the thought that they might miss out on a social occasion, a new experience, a profitable investment or a satisfying event. This social anxiety is characterized by a desire to stay continually connected with what others are doing.
  12. Bandwagon effect The tendency to do (or believe) things because

    many other people already do (or believe) the same. The bandwagon effect is characterized by the probability of individual adoption increasing with respect to the proportion who have already done so. 🦄
  13. Memories & recalling These biases can influence choices by either

    enhancing or impairing the recall of a memory or altering the content of a reported memory. 🦄
  14. Primacy effect Items near the end of a sequence are

    the easiest to recall, followed by the items at the beginning of a sequence; items in the middle are the least likely to be remembered.
  15. Interview & user testing These biases can directly influence designer,

    during interviews or user testing, and may change the outcome of our research. They influence the behaviour of people we interview or people who will test your products and services.
  16. Courtesy bias The tendency to give an opinion that is

    more socially correct than one's true opinion, so as to avoid offending anyone.
  17. Negativity bias Psychological phenomenon by which humans have a greater

    recall of unpleasant memories compared with positive memories.
  18. Team work, social & meetings These biases can change the

    way groups of people work collectively and interact with each other, whether in a meeting room or in their daily lives in general. 🦄
  19. "Not invented here" NIH Aversion to contact with or use

    of already existing products, research, standards, or knowledge developed outside a group because of their external origins and costs, such as royalties. Research illustrates a strong bias against ideas from the outside.
  20. Reactance The urge to do the opposite of what someone

    wants people to do out of a need to resist a perceived attempt to constrain their freedom of choice or limit their range of alternatives. 🦄
  21. These cards were created for teaching purposes. They help team

    members become aware of their own biases and the different biases they can induce, whether on purpose or not, to users. They can also be used as a cheat sheet and as “reminder cards” while designing. You can use them in small workshops with your coworkers to raise awareness among your team. The goal
  22. Step 1 - Discover and recall 1. Discovery Distribute the

    cards to groups (or individuals). Ask the people in the group to work together to recall examples of projects, interfaces or work related situations where they might have faced those biases. Before they start, remind them that they will need to pick 2 to present and pick a presenter. (10 minutes) 🦄
  23. Step 1 - Discover and recall 2. Sharing Each group

    presents 1 or 2 of the biases with an example to all participants in the workshop. At the end of the sharing session, depending on how many groups, people “know” at least 10 biases. (2-3 minutes per group) 🦄
  24. Step 2 - Build an experience 1. Let’s be evil!

    The people in the group (or individuals) will now imagine the most manipulative experience possible. They need to use as many biases as possible: those from the cards, those they already know. You can ask them to build an interface, but also a non-digital experience, or even make an advertisement, a TV spot, etc. Before they start, remind them that they will need to pick a presenter to present the evil experience (15/20 minutes)
  25. Step 2 - Build an experience 2. Sharing Each group

    then presents their own evil experience by listing the different biases used. Count the points and discover which group is the most evil and manipulative! (2-3 minutes per group)
  26. What about remote workshops? 🦊 • A conference tool with

    voice, a chat and breakout rooms to split people into groups. • A board tool (like Miro or mural) with the cards on it. • Icebreaker to help people get comfortable with remote tools.
  27. Ethics So, good or evil, what you create and build

    is your responsibility and your choice. Would you use some of those in a project?
  28. Check your biases Some of those might influence your user

    interviews and user testing - Confirmation bias - Framing effect - Social Desirability bias - etc. → 10 cognitive biases to avoid in User Research (and how to avoid them) 🦄
  29. • Cognitive Bias Cards For Learning Practitioners (to learn about

    bias) • Cognitive Bias Cards • Wikipedia list of cognitive biases • Online quizz tool with biases cards • CognitiveBiasCards • Bias Cards by UX Psychologists (to avoid designer bias) • List of cognitive biases • https:/ /growth.design/psychology/ Some cards / lists
  30. • Psychology for Designers Joe Leech • 100 Things Every

    Designer Needs to Know About People Susan Weinschenk • 100 MORE Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People Some books
  31. Thank you :) Contact us if you ever are in

    Luxembourg or remote and want to present a workshop or share a UX method! @ux_lux on twitter - [email protected]