“Anything you learn about technical development will need to be updated, the reason why I still am active is because years ago I learnt something that stays the same. Understanding people – it will never change, what you learn today you will be able to use at anytime time in future also.”
- Bill Buxton
During my internship with Microsoft Research in Redmond I got the privilige of talking to Bill Buxton, I showed him my work and we chatted a bit. Amongst many things that were good he pointed out the above statement was one thing he said right before we were done.
Based on that and a question I asked at UXExchange I have started to learn more about cognitive psychology, visual perception, etc. One of the resources I found were Mental Notes, created by Stephen Anderson: (in his own words)
“Mental Notes brings together 50 insights from psychology into an easy reference and brainstorming tool. Each card describes one insight into human behavior and suggests ways to apply this to the design of Web sites, Web apps, and software applications.“
Although I haven’t mustered up the cash for one of these lovely decks there is a sample PDF with seven sample cards that I printed out and have studied so far. The way in which these insights have been created are really nice and they will no doubt be a good tool for team projects and brainstorm/ideation sessions. A must have! 