What one Psychology course or book you would strongly recommend for people who are building new products?
Jun 3, 2020
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At the end of the day, I see psychology behind apps and websites. For example, the anonymity in Blind and Quora, "People who visited your profile" in Orkut and Linkedin but it is not available in Facebook.
1) What level of Psychology a software engineer /product manager know?
2) What one solid resource you would recommend (not like BS in Psychology)?
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Atomic Habits: an Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones https://www.amazon.com/dp/0593189647/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_rx91Eb66E18HE
Thinking, Fast and Slow https://www.amazon.com/dp/0374533555/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_i_Yx91Eb3KHY0E0
https://www.interaction-design.org/courses/psychology-of-interaction-design-the-ultimate-guide
Because your product is going nowhere without good UX.
Growth.design also does detailed case studies
How anonymity influences 1 single user- that you can learn from psychology. But if you want to understand how it changes the social dynamics of the user population, that would fall more under the realm of sociology. E.g. what is the difference between Quora, StackOverflow, Yahoo answers? At the surface, all of them are Q&A sites, but when you dig deeper, you will find there are a zillion small tweaks that change how the community behaves. E.g. Quora’s incentives structure & social hierarchy is very different from StackOverflow, which is very different from Yahoo Answers.
Found this book to be useful for learning more about that:
- Kraut, Resnick “Building successful online communities”
https://www.amazon.com/Building-Successful-Online-Communities-Evidence-Based/dp/0262016575