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Sciences UX Rests Upon

Here comes a summary of one of the most heroic sciences in the world -UX. To come out beautifully UX must rest on many sciences. This professional area encompasses many subject matters and angles on the reality.

💡 Innovation

Seeing where a system can create more value — and where its existing value chain breaks.

These contribute:

  • value-chain thinking
  • system thinking
  • opportunity recognition
  • problem reframing
  • connecting previously separate elements
  • identifying gaps and friction between functions
  • new value creation
  • business-model innovation
  • service innovation
  • organisational innovation
  • challenging established solutions
  • translating insight into new possibilities

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🧠 Cognitive sciences

Cognitive psychology · cognitive science · neuroscience

How people perceive, remember, learn, predict and make decisions.

These help explain:

  • attention
  • perception
  • memory
  • mental models
  • decision-making
  • cognitive load
  • prediction
  • learning

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❤️ Affective science

Emotion research · affective neuroscience · psychology

How emotion and feeling participate in perception, judgement and experience.

This addresses:

  • emotion
  • feeling
  • appraisal
  • bodily states
  • affective perception
  • emotional regulation

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🧠 Psychology

The individual mind, behaviour, motivation and development.

These contribute:

  • perception
  • cognition
  • attention
  • memory
  • motivation
  • emotion and affect
  • decision-making
  • learning
  • individual differences
  • behaviour

👥 Social psychology

How people perceive others, form relationships, respond to social cues and behave in groups.

This explains:

  • social perception
  • interpersonal interaction
  • trust
  • social presence
  • conformity
  • identity
  • relationships
  • social influence

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Sociology

How behaviour is shaped by social structures, norms, communities and institutions.

Sociology takes us beyond the individual.

It helps UX understand:

  • social structures
  • norms
  • groups and communities
  • subcultures
  • roles
  • institutions
  • social behaviour

🗣️ Linguistics

How language, discourse, pragmatics and communication create meaning.

And this is an area where your own background gives you an unusually strong connection.

Language contributes:

  • meaning
  • framing
  • tone
  • pragmatics
  • discourse
  • interpretation
  • conversational interaction

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🧠 Anthropology

How culture, practices, rituals and context shape human behaviour and meaning.

Anthropology helps UX understand people in context rather than as abstract “users.”

It contributes:

  • cultural practices
  • rituals
  • values
  • meanings
  • everyday behaviour
  • material culture
  • contextual observation

🎭 Philosophy

Agency, ethics, knowledge, perception, meaning and the nature of experience.

This one is often less visible in UX, but it is enormously important.

It gives us questions about:

  • agency
  • autonomy
  • ethics
  • meaning
  • perception
  • human experience
  • knowledge
  • responsibility

💼 Economics & behavioural economics

Bounded rationality, heuristics, choice, incentives and perceived value.

These contribute theories of:

  • choice
  • incentives
  • preferences
  • perceived value
  • heuristics
  • bounded rationality
  • decision-making

🦾 Human Factors & Ergonomics

The relationship between people, tools, environments and the demands placed upon them.

These contribute:

  • physical and cognitive workload
  • human capabilities and limitations
  • usability
  • safety
  • accessibility
  • comfort
  • performance
  • error prevention and recovery
  • environmental fit
  • human–system interaction

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💬 Communication Studies

How people create, interpret and negotiate meaning with one another.

These contribute:

  • communication
  • interpretation
  • meaning-making
  • dialogue
  • social presence
  • framing
  • tone and voice
  • information exchange
  • persuasion and influence
  • media and communication contexts

📣 Marketing & consumer research

Brands, relationships, personality, symbolic meaning and consumption.

These contribute:

  • brand perception
  • brand personality
  • consumer–brand relationships
  • symbolic consumption
  • positioning
  • perceived value
  • customer experience

🎨 Design Research

How knowledge about people can become designed possibilities.

These contribute:

  • user research
  • contextual inquiry
  • observation
  • co-creation
  • prototyping
  • exploration of needs and behaviours
  • design concepts
  • experiential evaluation
  • iterative learning
  • translation of research into design

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🎨 Design disciplines

Industrial design · interaction design · visual communication · service design · information design

These turn the knowledge from the other disciplines into designed artefacts, interfaces and experiences.

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💻 Computer science & technology

Technology establishes what can actually be built:

  • interaction models
  • information architecture
  • systems
  • interfaces
  • algorithms
  • technical constraints
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Summary developed in collaboration with ChatGPT

Thanks to Elchinator from Pixabay for the image

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