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A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)

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Re: A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)

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Post by azinman2 »

I don't see how calling out the demographics of the designers making the decisions has anything to do with the larger implications of societal impact. There are terrible things done by people of every demographic to millions of people, as well as great things. It's also less and less true (tho probably more so in 2013 when this was created), yet the problems still exist because the incentives are there (the real issue).

Re: A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)

#43

Post by tomaskafka »

aresant wrote: post #25

This presentation is wonderful for its PR value "people here care" but naïve bordering on malicious in its approach and understanding of Google's business. 11 years ago PG called the iPad the "hip flask" of the internet (1) and it's 10x worse today than it was then. The incentives of every major ad-supported tech platform are the same - maximize engagement to maximize profit. Every dollar of profit, every promotion,…

This. In a long term, company will never do anything against incentives their business model sets up.

Google is the ad company. Don't work for ad conpany.

Re: A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)

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Post by titzer »

rdiddly wrote: post #30

Being made to nibble little bites of text one at a time is a distraction. Images depicting clumsy or irrelevant metaphors of easily understood things are a distraction.

Endless nitpicking turns everything into infighting and makes everything suck. Can we have a conversation about substance at some point?

Re: A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)

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Post by lamontcg »

Make junk mail and spam e-mail illegal to start with.

Then start doing something about regulating advertising.

In an ideal world intrusive advertising would be banned and we'd have to go looking for ads to find them instead of them constantly demanding that we pay attention to them.

But that'd entirely blow up Google's whole business model.

Re: A call to minimize distraction and respect users’ attention (2013)

#48

Post by bingidingi »

xk7 wrote: post #44

Trite clichés over stock photos, is this parody?

I wish. I feel like this is the epitome of a specific type of slide-based presentation. This information could be covered in a single page of text, but ironically no one has the attention span to actually read... so instead we get low-density presentations with memes and cliches.
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