Working on the illustrations for my book Product Design Psychology.
After almost a decade 🙈 of starting, stopping, and starting again, I’ve finally reached the fun part.
For all 40 chapters in my book, I created an illustration. It was a challenge to develop a unique style and come up with concepts that matched each chapter’s topic, but I’m happy with how they turned out.
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Another dream unlocked: We bought a 1970 Volkswagen T2a campervan. Might still need a tiny bit of work, but we can’t wait for many family road trips in this classic.
It's finally live. Product Design Psychology is a free online book about psychology and design. Not just how psychology shapes the decisions your users make, but also the decisions you make as a designer, and the organization you work in.
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A weekend trip on an old motorcycle through muddy forest tracks is good for the soul.
Every work day I start here on the couch with a coffee, making my todo list for the day and going through emails and chats. Often with some piano music playing in the background 💆♂️
You might have called it experience. A lot of the time, it was just you designing for yourself in a room full of people who are nothing like you.
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The feedback came in. The screen was confusing. People got stuck. The evidence was obvious.
And still, you defend it. Because the design stopped feeling like work and started feeling like proof of whether you were actually good at your job.
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Nobody Thinks Like You. How false consensus makes you design for yourself. Understand the minds you design for and the mind you design with.
I had an absolute blast riding through the mountains of Sardinia.
The more you look at your design, the less qualified you are to judge it.
That’s when your own mind starts lying to you.
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Wouter de Bres
Your Mind Lies to You. How the brain defends your work while pretending to evaluate it. Understand the minds you design for and the mind you design with.
