When I switched careers from psychology to design, I expected to leave one field and enter another. That is not what happened. The output changed. Instead of assessments and reports, I was making wireframes…

pretty much

your brain hates blank space, so it fills it with the nearest sample: you

think of it like designing a hotel room while standing in your own bedroom. everything feels obvious because you know where your socks are

annoyingly, no

asking helps, but the chapter is warning you about the gap between what feels true and what survives contact

Every decision you make as a designer is a claim about how a person will think, feel, or behave. Where you put a button is a claim about where people look. What…

yep. design = psychology is the trap door

then it shows up as what this means for you

make the hidden assumption visible before the review starts

then test the behavior, not just whether the room nods

and if a choice only works for informed, patient, caffeinated people, treat that as a bug

that’s the series tbh

design psychology is mostly noticing the human nonsense before it ships

deal. hydrate first