Saturday, June 20, 2026 · 9:41 AM
ok dumb question, what’s the deal with good design dies in meetings?
Conformity and group polarization mean meetings do not just reveal what a team thinks. They change it. Doubts get filtered out, early opinions get amplified, and the group becomes more certain without getting…
so the villain is... my brain trying to be helpful?
pretty much
your brain hates blank space, so it fills it with the nearest sample: you
Solomon Asch ran the famous line experiments in the 1950s.
that feels rude but accurate
it’s like cooking for the loudest person at the table and calling it customer research
wait so the fix is just ‘ask users’?
annoyingly, no
asking helps, but the chapter is warning you about the gap between what feels true and what survives contact
TL;DR: Conformity and group polarization mean meetings do not just reveal what a team thinks. They change it. Doubts get filtered out, early opinions get…
ok that’s the part people skip
yep. people change their answer in the room is the trap door
then it shows up as then the room hardens
In 1985, Coca-Cola launched New Coke after years of testing, research, and committee process.
so what do i actually do differently on monday
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
ok send me the next one after i recover
Read Sat, Jun 20 · 10:03 AM