PinnedIan Stevens·Oct 7, 2019Everything is practiceHow as little as 5 minutes a day can yield improvement, help you let go of perfection, and bring you more happiness.
InThe StartupbyIan Stevens·Jan 7, 2021Are 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…
Ian Stevens·Oct 14, 2020Joanne 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…
Ian Stevens·Jun 2, 2020Only you can stop confirmation biasConfirmation bias leads us to hold false belief with a confidence greater than evidence can justify. Curbing it when making decisions…
Ian Stevens·Nov 4, 2019How we’re steered towards false beliefOur brains do a pretty bad job of reasoning, and a great job of maintaining and strengthening false belief.
Ian Stevens·Oct 21, 2019Three reasons why we make bad decisions, and why it mattersHow our brain’s tendency to selectively gather, interpret, and recall information makes us behave irrationally.
Ian Stevens·Nov 12, 2018For Great Products, Start With WhyI love finding the intent behind a rule, a concept, or even a mysterious part on a physical product. With that all-important question —…