Overview
Syllabus
"The Programming Ape" Coda Hale
How people think and why that matters.
Yammer The enterprise social network.
Help businesses be better businesses.
Software people!
We write software to help people do things.
What's a people?
People are not computers.
reliable minds.
We have human minds.
We care about how humans act.
We can observe how humans act.
Involuntary
Fast
Effortless
Invisible
Slow
Difficult
Perceptible
Associative
Parallel
Primed
SOAP
Pattern Matching
Coherence
Swimming Road Trip
Swimming Potato
Regulatory
Lazy
Bait Switch
didn't read.
didn't notice.
Too tired; didn't care.
Ego depletion.
So you're building tools for humans...
Let the visual cortex do the work.
Build ambient awareness.
Make daily life sustainable.
Correlate.
Normalize.
Detect anomalies.
Create a moment of cognitive strain.
Leverage intuition. Conserve attention.
We build tools which are used by people.
Taught by
ChariotSolutions