Fresh Start Effect
A cognitive phenomenon where people are more likely to pursue goals or change behavior following a temporal landmark (e.g., new year, birthday).
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Iconography
The visual images, symbols, or modes of representation collectively associated with a subject, often used in design to communicate ideas quickly and effectively.
Doherty Threshold
A principle stating that productivity increases when the computer and its user interact at a pace that ensures neither has to wait on the other.
Negativity Bias
The tendency to give more weight to negative experiences or information than positive ones.
Truth Bias
The tendency for people to believe that others are telling the truth, leading to a general assumption of honesty in communication.
Hidden Costs
A dark pattern where additional costs are only revealed at the last step of the checkout process.
Defaulting
The practice of setting defaults in decision environments to influence outcomes, often used in behavioral economics and design.
Heat Map
A data visualization technique that shows the intensity of data points with varying colors, often used to represent user interactions on a website.
Suffix Effect
The phenomenon where people have a reduced ability to recall the last items in a list when additional, unrelated information is added at the end.