The Design Psychologist | Psychology for UX, Product, Service, Instructional, Interior, and Game Designers
Welcome to The Design Psychologist, a podcast where we explore the intersection of psychology and design. The show is hosted by Thomas Watkins, a design psychologist who has spent years applying behavioral science principles to the creation of digital products.
We sit down with a variety of experts who apply psychology in different ways to the design of the world around us. Thomas uses his expertise to guide conversations that provide practical advice while illuminating the theory behind why designs succeed.
Tune in if you are a design practitioner who seeks to understand your work on a deeper level and craft experiences that are intuitive, effective, and delightful.
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Previous Episodes
- The Power of Social Proof (Part 2): 18 Methods Across 5 Psychological Drivers
- The Power of Social Proof (Part 1)
- Align Before Design: The Psychology of Strategic Alignment (with Tamara Adlin)
- Why Games Work: Emotional Arcs, Flow States, and Meaningful Play (with Jesse Schell)
- Advance Without Alienating: How MAYA Drives Adoption
- Frontstage, Backstage: How Service Design Really Works (with Marc Stickdorn)
- The Peak-End Rule in Design: What We Take Away
- Less Load, More Learning: First Principles of Cognitive Load Theory (with John Sweller)
- Designing with Tension: What the Zeigarnik Effect Reveals About Memory and Momentum
- Closing the Knowing-Doing Gap: Designing for Real Behavior Change (with Julie Dirksen)
- Order Matters—But Not the Way You Think: How Serial Position Gets Misused
- From Vibes to Variables: How We’re Measuring the Unmeasurable in UX (with Bill Albert)
- The Shape of Choice: What Hick’s Law Really Reveals About Decision Time
- How to Visualize the Invisible: Metaphors, Models, and Meaning (with Stephen P. Anderson)
- How Well Do Our Words Reflect Our Inside World? A psychological perspective on the limits of self-report, introspection, and understanding the human mind
- Disruptive by Design: Uncovering Game-Changing Insights (with Larry Marine)
- The Why Behind Sample Size: How Many People Do You Really Need to Test With?
- How to Decode Conversation: A Paradigm Shift in Qualitative Insight and Human Understanding (with Indi Young)
- Why It Feels Right: Affordance and the Mind’s Hidden Expectations
- Designing for Risk: What Aviation and AR Reveal about Attention, Disaster, and Human Factors (with Chris Wickens)
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