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Understanding Biases

Posted on May 20, 2010 by Xavier

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 … Con­tinue read­ing →

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Device Switching

Posted on August 14, 2009 by Xavier

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 … Con­tinue read­ing →

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