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This reminds me of a recent interview with Pete Trainor: https://soundcloud.com/uxpodcast/112-steve-portigal-pete-trainor-anjan-chatterjee#t=19:52 https://sound
by sgryzko 11y ago
This reminds me of a recent interview with Pete Trainor: https://soundcloud.com/uxpodcast/112-steve-portigal-pete-trainor-anjan-chatterjee#t=19:52 https://soundcloud.com/uxpodcast/112-steve-portigal-pete-tra...
"...things should be possibly be made more complex or more complicated for people to make them smarter and to make them happier... it's flying in the face of quite a lot of the wisdom that we've been building up for the last 15-20 years in usability."
I think one of the author's points is that he appreciates that Josephine actually satisfies a higher level of Maslow's hierarchy than Sprig not in spite of its lower level of convenience, but because of it.
1) Uber For Food: Immediate satisfaction of fatty, salty food.
2) Sprig: Higher-level satisfaction of food better for long-term health.
3) Josephine: Slower, more conscious choice; face-to-face connection with your neighbors.