The Age of the App Is Over
for nearly fourteen years afterwards, I stared at a smartphone every single day. Five thousand days, all in all. I can’t think of anything else I’ve done with the same level of commitment. There have been days where I’ve had nothing to eat or drink and there have been nights when I didn’t sleep. But until very recently, I never once went twenty-fou... See more
The world of apps—once an exciting canvas for creative exploration—has become repetitive, predictable, and... boring
(Not Boring) Software Inc. • No More Boring Apps | (Not Boring) Software
When we stop worrying about smartphones just in terms of content (what we’re looking at) and start to consider the rituals that tether us to them throughout the day, we’ll notice that the very form of the practice comes loaded with an egocentric vision that makes me the center of the universe.
James K. A. Smith • You Are What You Love: The Spiritual Power of Habit
Escaping the Attention Economy - Last Week I Learned
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Human beings simply aren’t equipped with the necessary bandwidth to process the explosion of information that our world has normalized.To make things worse, it turns out that the desktop metaphor underlying so much of our computing was not equipped to handle it either. In response to the increased stimuli, our Desktops simply started generating mor... See more
UX Collective • The desktop metaphor must die
We’ve become enamored with new technologies, new software, and new devices, and too often large companies and even solo companies try to incorporate them into their existing structures in an effort to “keep up.”