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Everything Is Practice

How as little as 5 minutes a day can yield improvement, help you let go of perfection, and bring you more happiness. “Does Practice Really Make Perfect?”. That was the title of one of my middle school science projects. I forced my family to play Perfection over, and over, and over again to see if they got better with time. Spoiler alert: they did. If you don’t know the game, the goal…

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Everything is practice
Everything is practice
Photography

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Published in The Startup

·Jan 7, 2021

Are You Repelling Users With Your Product Design?

Your seemingly innocuous product design could be repelling or alienating underrepresented users. Make it better by adopting a more inclusive and welcoming design. Here’s why it’s important, and how to get there. Good product design attracts, bad product design repels. Yet not everyone experiences bad design in the same way. Too often, marginalized and underrepresented users experience unintended product outcomes like anguish, anxiety, and a feeling of alienation. This can happen when a product’s entire userbase isn’t fully considered in its design…

Product Management

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Are You Repelling Users With Your Product Design?
Are You Repelling Users With Your Product Design?
Product Management

8 min read


Oct 14, 2020

Joanne McNeil’s Lurking serves as a warning for makers of digital products

“Induce anguish” and “increase anxiety” are usually not on a list of outcomes for any digital product. Even so, many social media products of the past and present have done just that. Joanne McNeil’s Lurking follows the digitally connected user of the internet and pre-internet. It’s a great book for anyone designing or building social apps and services. Those who forget the social internet’s past errors are doomed to repeat them.

Product Management

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Joanne McNeil’s Lurking serves as a warning for makers of digital products
Joanne McNeil’s Lurking serves as a warning for makers of digital products
Product Management

5 min read


Jun 2, 2020

Only you can stop confirmation bias

Confirmation bias leads us to hold false belief with a confidence greater than evidence can justify. Curbing it when making decisions requires patience and rigor. It’s a battle that’s worth the effort. A while back I volunteered to contribute to a book on the behaviours and history of political, legal, and socio-economic systems. It was to be a primer for people creating products with the potential to disrupt those systems. My contribution was a chapter on confirmation bias, detailing its effects, its…

Bias

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Only you can stop confirmation bias
Only you can stop confirmation bias
Bias

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Nov 4, 2019

How we’re steered towards false belief

Our brains do a pretty bad job of reasoning, and a great job of maintaining and strengthening false belief. A while back I volunteered to contribute to a book on the behaviours and history of political, legal, and socio-economic systems. It was to be a primer for people creating products with the potential to disrupt those systems. My contribution was a chapter on confirmation bias, detailing its effects, its…

Psychology

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How we’re steered towards false belief
How we’re steered towards false belief
Psychology

9 min read


Oct 21, 2019

Three reasons why we make bad decisions, and why it matters

How our brain’s tendency to selectively gather, interpret, and recall information makes us behave irrationally. A while back I volunteered to contribute to a book on the behaviours and history of political, legal, and socio-economic systems. It was to be a primer for people creating products with the potential to disrupt those systems. My contribution was a chapter on confirmation bias, detailing its effects, its…

Psychology

9 min read

Three reasons why we make bad decisions, and why it matters
Three reasons why we make bad decisions, and why it matters
Psychology

9 min read


Nov 12, 2018

For Great Products, Start With Why

I love finding the intent behind a rule, a concept, or even a mysterious part on a physical product. With that all-important question — Why? — answered, I’m free to dream up simpler ways that intent could have been satisfied. Getting to that kernel of truth can be very satisfying…

Product Management

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For Great Products, Start With Why
For Great Products, Start With Why
Product Management

2 min read

Ian Stevens

Ian Stevens

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