Children from the regions of Armenia provide the local IT community with the largest library of cognitive biases

Monday, April 28 2025 14:04

ArmInfo. In the summer of 2020, a free project was launched - UXCore, which is the largest library of cognitive biases (thinking patterns) with over 1000 examples for use. The author of this project was an Armenian Wolf Aleksanyan, who has over 17 years of experience in information technology (B2G, B2B, crypto) for more than 17 years. Aleksanyan released UXCore (UX - user experience, Core - core) under the GFDL license, allowing anyone to use it for non-commercial purposes. The project is available in English and Russian, which, among other things, has attracted the attention of the global IT community and sparked heated discussion. Today, UXCore is popular, including in Silicon Valley. Wolf Aleksanyan mentioned in an interview with an ArmInfo correspondent that the project has received high praise from influential people in the industry, representing conglomerates as Google, Amazon, etc.

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