Conversation Agent: What do You Know About People?
There are some universals that experience designers think about. For example, Stephen Anderson lists a series of questions in a great deck on seductive interactions. I agree with his list. People:
- are curious
- are afraid of change
- seek out patterns
- like to order and organize things
- are intensely self-centered
- are lazy
- are highly visual thinkers and learners
- like to be the hero of the story
- respond to their name and other first person cues
- don’t like to make choices, but like choice
- like to be in control (and like to be guided)
- find novelty and surprise interesting
These behaviors manifest themselves in the way people interact with your content — online and offline.
Source: conversationagent.com
