Psychology is your superpower to design user-centred interfaces

Jerome Kalumbu
UX Collective
Published in
7 min readNov 7, 2021

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An antique typewriter with a sheet of paper displaying the word Psychology.
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Understanding how people think and act is fundamental to designing effective user interfaces. Sadly, most designers ignore that cognitive psychology is the essence of how people interact, feel and process the information on a website.

In his article “What is Cognitive Psychology?” Bryn Farnsworth, Researcher in Neuroscience, gives the following definition…

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