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Algorithm-friendly design need not be user-hostile. It simply takes a different approach as to how to best serve the user’s interests. Pagination may insert some level of friction to the user, but in doing so, it may provide the algorithm with cleaner signal that safeguards the quality of the feed in the long run.
Eugene Wei • Seeing Like an Algorithm — Remains of the Day
idea was based on glanceability, or what cognitive scientists call preattentive processing.
David Rose • Enchanted Objects: Innovation, Design, and the Future of Technology
Thus the cycle of aesthetic optimization and homogenization continued.
Kyle Chayka • Filterworld
The fact that the people who built the site didn’t care enough to make things obvious—and easy—can erode our confidence in the site and the organization behind it.
Steve Krug • Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
For example, new design features or elements that excite designers are often never used or even noticed by people who interact with the design. In many cases, such features and elements increase the design’s interaction costs by adding complexity to the system.