My new book, Talk to the Elephant: Design Learning for Behavior Change is available for pre-order! Book Description: What do you do when your learners know what to do but still aren’t doing …
Human Behavior Wackiness
That Pesky Goldfish Attention Span Myth
I think everyone who works in the research-to-practice area has a persistent myth that annoys them the most. Mine is unquestionably the goldfish attention span one. Here's my pass at a video to …
Brain as Prediction Machine
So I'm really interested right now in how the brain operates as a prediction machine. Basically, one of our core brain functions seems to be guessing what is going to happen next. I think this has …
Behavior Research Links
So, I was just talking to someone interesting in doing user research for behavior change, and I put together a set of links for her. I thought it was a useful list, so also posting it here: This …
Complexity and Learning
I'm kind of obsessing about complexity theory right now (Dave Snowden's Cynefin Model mostly), and looking at simple, complicated and complex systems. I had a lot of conversations about this last …
Presentation: Designing for Behavior Change
This presentation for Designing for Behavior Change by Stephen Wendel is pretty fantastic: http://www.slideshare.net/sawendel/uxweek-2015-designing-for-behavior-change …