The Brainfluence CD

I just received an actual copy of the Brainfluence CD. Despite the fact that it's unabridged (yep, all 100 techniques are in there), Brilliance Audio made it fit on one CD because it's in MP3 format.

Riddle: When Is Twitter Like an Elevator?

Travel enough, and you encounter a lot of elevators. This simple device can offer some interesting user experience lessons. Some are bizarre ones, like the incomprehensible control system I described in Don’t Redesign Your Elevator! The…

Can Neuro-Music Boost Your Productivity?

Work environments today are noisy and distracting. As Maria Konnikova writes in a recent New Yorker article, open office plans are a big culprit. One study describes the effects of open environments as "damaging to the workers’ attention…