Reminds me of all those UX guys who look at designs and try to think it through logically and make arguments from their own authority instead of from data. I re

Reminds me of all those UX guys who look at designs and try to think it through logically and make arguments from their own authority instead of from data. I remember articles linked here where the designer said users will study all the options on the page before picking one, lol. Pinterest layouts do well in user studies and do well in helping people find something interesting to engage without before ditching your site. Because that's what most people do. Quick scan of site, don't read anything entirely, nothing interesting, go somewhere else. Meanwhile, when implementing Pinterest layouts and user testing them, we've gotten feedback that these thing little knowledge or story or interest bites or whatever are actually making people feel smarter. It's mentally rewarding to users to have these little useless mind snacks scattered across the page that they quickly skim and feel accomplished about. Sure it doesn't make sense to some clueless designer who tries to make up rules for everything and doesn't do user studies and tries to argue from authority, but that's the way it is.