UX Myths collects the most frequent user experience misconceptions and explains why they don't hold true. And you don't have to take our word for it, we'll show you a lot of research findings and articles by design and usability gurus.
Also by Zoltán Gócza is Contrast rebellion:
Nothing makes you feel stupid quite like reading a scientific journal article.
https://www.sciencemag.org/careers/2016/01/how-read-scientific-paper
https://daverupert.com/2018/04/eponymous-laws-of-tech/
I especially love Hofstadter’s Law:
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.
a case against using them:
Promising to make you look wired and magically promote your content in social networks, the Like, Retweet, and +1 buttons occupy a good spot on pretty much every page of the World Wide Web. Because of this, almost every major site and brand is providing free advertising for Twitter and Facebook. But do these buttons work?
It’s hard to say. What we know for sure is that these magic buttons promote their own brands—and that they tend to make you look a little desperate. Not too desperate, just a little bit.
There has recently been a spate of best-selling popular science books that attempt to explain to the masses some fairly intricate ideas from fields such as psychology, neuroscience, mathematics, and biology. But they leave me somewhat uncomfortable. Most of them were written by non-technical authors.
https://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/4112670117/the-shy-scientist
“The past 100 years have shown that the engineering disciplines, compared to all other fields of science, have probably by far the highest impact on society. The last is especially true with the emergence of the information age, which gives us one of the most influential instruments for psychological control humanity has ever had. With all that said, engineering science plays an important role in the development of our society, and to a large extent the future of mankind now lies in the hands of engineers.”
In the year 1930, John Maynard Keynes predicted that, by century's end, technology would have advanced sufficiently that countries like Great Britain or the United States would have achieved a 15-hour work week. There's every reason to believe he was right. In technological terms, we are quite capable of this. And yet it didn't happen. Instead, technology has been marshaled, if anything, to figure out ways to make us all work more. In order to achieve this, jobs have had to be created that are, effectively, pointless. Huge swathes of people, in Europe and North America in particular, spend their entire working lives performing tasks they secretly believe do not really need to be performed. The moral and spiritual damage that comes from this situation is profound. It is a scar across our collective soul. Yet virtually no one talks about it.