My mission for 2014 was to get more people started in User Experience (UX) Design. In January, hundreds of thousands of people did the original UX Crash Course and it was translated into Spanish, Portuguese and Korean by amazing volunteers. In May we continued with a User Psychology lesson every day. Below you will find links to all 31 new lessons.

Basic UX Psychology: How to get started

The following list isn’t everything about designing behavior. It’s a quick overview, so you can go from zero-to-hero as quickly as possible. You will get lots of practical ideas and techniques to use in your designs and strategies. The lessons follow the order of a real-life UX process (more or less) so you can apply these ideas as-you-go. Each lesson also stands alone, so feel free to bookmark them as a reference!

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Introduction & Key Ideas

#01 — What is User Psychology?

#02 — Your Perspective

#03 — The 3 Whats of User Perspective

#04 — Psychology vs. Culture

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Behaviour Basics

#05 — What is an Experience?

#06 — Conscious vs. Subconscious Experience

#07 — Emotions

#08 — What are Motivations?

#09 — Motivations 1: Sex & Love

#10 — Motivations 2: Affiliation, Status & Justice

#11 — Motivations 3: Understanding (Curiosity)

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Designing Behaviour

#12 — Designing with Intention

#13 — Rewards & Punishments

#14 — Conditioning & Addiction

#15 — Gamification

#16 — Social & Viral Structure

#17 — Creating Trust

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The Limits of Our Minds

#18 — What is Intuition?

#19 — What is a Cognitive Bias?

#20 — The Illusion of Choice

#21 — Attention

#22 — Memory

#23 — Hyperbolic Discounting: The backbone of usability

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The Psychology of Usability

#24 — What is Usability, Really?

#25 — Simple vs. Easy vs. Fast vs. Minimal

#26 — Consistency & Expectations

#27 — Anti-UX

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Measuring Psychology

#28 — Can You Measure a Soul?

#29 — The Probability of Interaction

#30 — Structure vs. Choice

#31 — Sometimes A/B Testing is The Only Way to Know

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