Alan Dix
HCI researcher and author on creativity, convergent thinking, and human-centred design. A key reference for analysis and ideation in UX.
- HCI
- Creativity
- Human-computer interaction
7 authors
Daniel Kahneman
Psychologist and economist, Nobel laureate. His work on two systems of thinking helps explain intuition, biases, and decision-making in product design.
- Behavioral economics
- Cognitive biases
- Decision-making
Abby Covert
Information architect, author, and teacher. In *How to Make Sense of Any Mess* she treats IA as the way we arrange the parts of something to make it understandable as a whole.
- Information architecture
- Sensemaking
- Diagramming
Amos Tversky
Cognitive psychologist. With Daniel Kahneman he described heuristics, biases, and the framing of decisions under uncertainty.
- Cognitive biases
- Heuristics
- Prospect theory
Don Norman
Cognitive designer and author of *The Design of Everyday Things*. Pioneer of user-centred design and usability as a discipline.
- UX
- Usability
- Human-centred design
Louis Rosenfeld
Information architect, author, and publisher. Co-author of the Polar Bear Book and founder of Rosenfeld Media.
- Information architecture
- Rosenfeld Media
- UX publishing
Peter Morville
Information architect and co-author of *Information Architecture for the World Wide Web*. A key reference for IA as the structural design of shared information environments.
- Information architecture
- Findability
- Search