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Understanding Biases

Bias is a com­mon human trait and cog­nit­ive bias affects all of us. Wiki­pe­dia defines ‘cog­nit­ive bias’ as “the human tend­ency to draw incor­rect con­clu­sions in cer­tain cir­cum­stances based on cog­nit­ive factors rather than evid­ence”. Bias is an out­come of human thought and often based on rules of thumb. Cog­nit­ive biases are instances of evolved […]

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Device Switching

Some time back, I was involved in a pro­ject that involved port­ing an AS/400 applic­a­tion to a web applic­a­tion. I volun­teered to be the usab­il­ity ana­lyst for the web applic­a­tion as I was involved in doc­u­ment­ing the AS/400 applic­a­tion and the devel­op­ment team did not ‘know’ the AS/400 applic­a­tion as much as I did. My […]

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