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UX design should embrace human irrationality, says expert
This piece examines the connection between behavioral economics and UX design, offering advice for creating interfaces that account for human cognitive limitations. Jakob Nielsen discusses core ideas like limited decision-making capacity, attention spans, too many choices, common heuristics, and prospect theory. He advocates for designing systems based on how people actually behave, rather than adhering to traditional economic theories.
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