Comments on: Deadly set: how too much focus causes mistakes.

By: Top posts of 2013 | 90 Percent Of Everything

Top posts of 2013 | 90 Percent Of Everything — Fri, 27 Dec 2013 09:12:26 +0000

[…] Deadly set: how too much focus causes mistakes. People often don’t talk about the risk of being “too focussed” in our work. It’s actually a documented problem that human factors researchers have to account for when analysing accidents. […]

By: Danny Hope

Danny Hope — Sun, 01 Sep 2013 09:32:40 +0000

Blay Whitby will be talking about his work in aviation safety at UX Brighton 2013 in November. You should come.

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By: Johan

Johan — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 09:00:04 +0000

Daniel Kahneman has researched this as well. There's a great presentation he did for the Long Now foundation, where he talks about our inability to consider that we're wrong, and many other things: Daniel Kahneman – “Thinking Fast and Slow” (I assume much of the same is in his book with the same title, as well.)

By: Paul Lumsdaine

Paul Lumsdaine — Thu, 22 Aug 2013 07:13:35 +0000

Great (although tragic) story! I can see how this relates especially to UX individuals working at the enterprise level. We often get so fixated on guidelines and generating specifications that we often forget to think critically about the work we do.