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Dark Patterns: How Even Savvy Users Get Tricked
Can user experience design get too tricky or even unethical? Here are illustrations of sneaky techniques used by LinkedIn and others.
Should You Put the Price First or Last?
Should you lead with the price? Or wait? Harvard and Stanford researchers used fMRI brain scans to find the answer to this common question.
Increase Your Visitor Engagement, Increase Your Profit
Your site's design can reduce visitor engagement, which will lower your conversion rate and profits. Learn how to track engagement and see examples of how to improve it.
The Simple Sales Booster That Almost Nobody Uses
A recent test described by WhichTestWon showed adding a single line of text to a web page could boost sales, from a few percent to 200+%. Yet, very few websites use this technique. Do you?
Habit Summit 2015: My Deck, and a Surprise Takeaway
This year's Habit Summit, organized by Nir Eyal (author of the best-selling Hooked), proved to be one of the more interesting conferences I've attended or spoken at. The focus was on building habit-forming products, and the speakers…
The Wrong Font Can Kill You. Literally. Your Sales, Too.
Fonts have strange an unexpected effects. Patients were less compliant with medical instructions when hard-to-read fonts were used. And, the fluency of fonts can have a big impact on your marketing, too.
Designing For The Mind – SXSW 2015
Here are the slides from and a quick recap of the Designing for the Mind panel at SXSW 2015.
Brainfluence Podcast – Episodes 31 to 40
Another couple of months and we've got ten more episodes of The Brainfluence Podcast with awesome guests like Paul Zak, Dan Pink, and Robin Dreeke, the FBI's former top behaviorist! Here's your chance to catch up on any you missed.…
Mega-Recap for Roger’s Picks
My "picks" went on vacation over the holidays, and then got off to a slow start in the new year. So, this edition is a big catch-up on my own content from here, Forbes, and my podcasts at RogerDooley.com, along with a few tasty morsels from…
Beyond Clicks: Headlines That Persuade
A new study shows that the content of a headline changes what readers remember and even how they think. The challenge is to write headlines that serve multiple important purposes.