When I was first introduced to some of the most famous psychology studies to ever exist in my undergraduate psychology classes I was engrossed by how humans behaved. But, at the time I didn’t realize how intertwined basic psychology studies were in understanding design.
However, as I learned, I began to see these connections more and more. Nobody else in my class looked at basic psychology the same way I did, out of 40 students, 39 were pursuing science or medicine. And that one, of course, was me, a technology student. While the girl next to me worked with children suffering trauma, I was there trying to understand how to make someone click a button.