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Busting Brain Myths

for Better Design
Chelsea Maxwell
!
@chelsea_lace
quick quiz
are you a left brain
or a right brain
thinker?
quick quiz
hemispherectomy?
1. Left brain vs. right brain
2. 10% of your brain
3. Personality types
4. Color and emotions
5. Digital natives
user interaction designer
Active Network
m.s. applied cognition and neuroscience
The University of Texas at Dallas
I like brains
who else
likes brains?
I like brains
Roger Sperry
One must caution in
this connection that
the experimentally
observed polarity in
right-‐left cognitive style
is an idea in general
with which it is very
easy to run wild.
what do we know about brain hemispheres?
Broca’s
area
Wernicke’s
area
So do 1 in 10 right-‐handed
people
1 in 3 left-‐handed people
have language areas on their
right hemisphere
creativity logic
creativity logic
memory
intelligence
understanding
motivation
talent
awareness
emotional intelligence
problem solving
divergent thinking
aesthetics
skill
reasoning
creativity logic
1. Left brain vs. right brain
2. 10% of your brain
3. Personality types
4. Color and emotions
5. Digital natives
1. Left brain vs. right brain
2. 10% of your brain
3. Personality types
4. Color and emotions
5. Digital natives
? ? ?
65% of people surveyed believe
we only use 10% of our brains
We are making use of
only a small part of our
possible mental and
physical resources.
— William James
Professor William James
of Harvard used to say
that the average man
develops only ten percent
of his latent mental ability.
— Lowell Thomas
10% of what?
20% body’s energy
3% weight
1. Left brain vs. right brain
2. 10% of your brain
3. Personality types
4. Color and emotions
5. Digital natives
1. Left brain vs. right brain
2. 10% of your brain
3. Personality types
4. Color and emotions
5. Digital natives
Katherine Briggs and
Isabel Briggs Meyers
Introversion Extroversion
Intuitive Sensing
FeelingThinking
Perceiving Judging
Introversion Extroversion
Intuitive Sensing
FeelingThinking
Perceiving Judging
Introversion Extroversion
Intuitive Sensing
FeelingThinking
Perceiving Judging
Introversion E
I Sensing
FeelingT
Perceiving J
INTP
ENTP ENTJ
INTJ
ISTP
ESTP
ESTJ
ISTJ
ISFP
ISFJ
ESFP
ESFJ
INFP INFJ
ENFP ENFJ
INTP
ENTP ENTJ
INTJ
ISTP
ESTP
ESTJ
ISTJ
ISFP
ISFJ
ESFP
ESFJ
INFP INFJ
ENFP ENFJ
INTP
ENTP ENTJ
INTJ
ISTP
ESTP
ESTJ
ISTJ
ISFP
ISFJ
ESFP
ESFJ
INFP INFJ
ENFP ENFJ
forer effect
or
barnum effect
Disciplined and self-‐controlled
outside, you tend to be
worrisome and insecure inside.
“
”
You pride yourself as an
independent thinker and do
not accept others' statements
without satisfactory proof.
“
”
At times you are extroverted,
affable, sociable, while at other
times you are introverted,
wary, reserved.
“
”
subjects rated accuracy as 4.26
on a scale of 0 (﴾very poor)﴿ to 5
(﴾excellent)﴿
even after just 5 weeks as many as
50% of people are classified as a
different type
people are complicated
1. Left brain vs. right brain
2. 10% of your brain
3. Personality types
4. Color and emotions
5. Digital natives
1. Left brain vs. right brain
2. 10% of your brain
3. Personality types
4. Color and emotions
5. Digital natives
Goethe’s Theory of Colors
Alexander Schauss
(﴾Baker-‐Miller Pink)﴿
Alexander Schauss
(﴾Baker-‐Miller Pink)﴿
http://bit.ly/1jPAjh4
1. Left brain vs. right brain
2. 10% of your brain
3. Personality types
4. Color and emotions
5. Digital natives
1. Left brain vs. right brain
2. 10% of your brain
3. Personality types
4. Color and emotions
5. Digital natives
Marc Prensky
1/3 can't identify description of “bcc” email function
1/4 didn’t know how to adjust privacy settings on social
media sites
1. Left brain vs. right brain
2. 10% of your brain
3. Personality types
4. Color and emotions
5. Digital natives
1. Left brain vs. right brain
2. 10% of your brain
3. Personality types
4. Color and emotions
5. Digital natives
Design better
1. don’t generalize. research.
Age Extroversion
Technology
experience
Emotions
Creativity
Occupation
Personas
Tasks
Decision
making
2. your users aren’t stupid
3. designers aren’t special
I’m not like
other brains
4. Design with mental model in mind
Can you find the original source?
Is the study valid?
Can you find the original source?
Too good to be true?
Is the study valid?
Can you find the original source?
Is someone trying to make money from this?
Too good to be true?
Is the study valid?
Can you find the original source?
resources
@neuro_skeptic
@neurobullocks
@brain_facts_org
@neuroscience
@chelsea_lace
chelseamaxwell.com/brainmyths.html

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