Cognitive Bias

Tiago Nogal delves into cognitive biases and their impact on decision-making in product management, and offers some practical strategies to navigate them. Read more »

Some strategies to help product managers recognise and overcome bias Read more »

In part two of this deep dive, Mind the Product’s and Pendo’s Principal Strategist Christine Itwaru discusses common biases in product management careers, like authority, recency, availability, survivorship, and bandwagon effect. Read more »

In the first of a two-part series, Mind the Product’s Principal Strategist Christine Itwaru examines different forms of cognitive bias and looks at what product managers can do to combat them Read more »

No one is immune to cognitive biases. Cindy Alvarez, Principle Researcher at Microsoft and Author of Lean Customer Development wanted us to recognize this fact at #mtpcon San Francisco 2018. In this Sunday Rewind, we look back on this talk and what we learned from her keynote. Read more »

In this talk David Dylan Thomas, the author of Design for Cognitive Bias, uses real-world examples to identify some particularly harmful biases that frequently lead users to make bad decisions. Read more »

The dreaded curse of knowledge! <thunderclap> One of the few psychological phenomena that’s actually as scary as it sounds. If you’ve done any reading on cognitive biases, you’ve probably heard of it. Here’s a common definition: “The curse of knowledge is a cognitive bias that occurs when an individual, communicating with other individuals, unknowingly assumes that Read more »

Hiring in product is broken, and those hypothetical product questions you get asked in interviews are just the tip of the iceberg. Read more »

In this blog post, I’ll explore how momentum behavior, loss aversion, and the default effect can influence the adoption rates of product features and give examples of how you can address these hurdles. We humans are resistant to change, which can be an obstacle when introducing new product features to the marketplace. App developers, marketers, Read more »

In this #mtpengage Manchester talk, Roisi Proven of Gower Street Analytics talks about the lizard loop, which she describes as “backing rigour with intuition, after you’ve already backed up your intuition with rigour”. System 1 and System 2 thinking originate from the popular book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman. System 1 thinking, also Read more »