#attention (17 links)
- ‘This craving to go viral is tiresome’: the artists sick of the pressure to promote on social media theguardian.com
Surprisingly balanced.
- Daring Fireball: ‘Your Frustration Is the Product’ daringfireball.net
People are spending less and less time on the web because websites are becoming worse and worse experiences, but the publishers of websites are almost literally trying to dig their way out of that hole by adding more and more of the reader-hostile shit that is driving people away.
- Against the dark forest wrecka.ge
- Flow state: Why fragmented thinking is worse than any interruption blog.stackblitz.com
There is nothing wrong with a design methodology that seeks to engage users of a product. There’s nothing wrong with a design methodology that aims to make products more fun to use. But I am worried by a design movement that assumes that users are easily distracted, and I am worried about design methods that seek to mimic game (and particularly videogame) design hooks to retain users and their attention. I am worried about the assumption that attention is a problem. It seems to assume and accept that continuous partial attention is for everybody.
What advertisers buy when they purchase a magazine or TV ad is slice of the attention of some subset of that media object's audience [...] A web page, in contrast, is typically festooned with hyperlinked visual objects that fall all over themselves in competing to take you elsewhere immediately once you're done consuming whatever it is that you came to that page for.
- Design for Emotion and Flow - Boxes and Arrows: The design behind the design boxesandarrows.com
When attention becomes a scarce resource, it’s important to invest it wisely. Information architects and designers play a critical role in ensuring the products they design provide users’ with a return on their investment of attention.
The dominance of visually-driven interfaces become especially problematic in the mobile context. Design principles and conventions like WYSIWYG and GUI become brittle and broken on small devices.
- Seth's Blog: Silly Traffic sethgodin.typepad.com
Engage your existing users far more deeply. Increase their participation, their devotion, their interconnection and their value. Turn those existing users into ambassadors, charged with the idea of bring you traffic that is focused, traffic with intent.
- Web 3.0: Is It About Personalization? - ReadWriteWeb readwriteweb.com
"The easiest way to sell the Semantic Web vision to consumers is to talk about how it can make their lives easier. When machines understand things in human terms, and can apply that knowledge to your attention data, we'll have a web that knows what we wan
APML allows users to share their own personal Attention Profile in much the same way that OPML allows the exchange of reading lists between News Readers.
- Online Oxygen: Marketing blogs: less is more onlineoxygen.blogspot.com
I suspect, if micro-blogging is being used to replace stimulating, long-form blogging then readers will vote with their feet
- russell davies: 2008 - the year of peak advertising russelldavies.typepad.com
2008 may well also be the year of Peak Advertising. In the West at least. The year in which there is the most advertising. And after that there's less and less each year.
"Give us your del.icio.us username and we'll feed you anything that you've tagged as: "tagmindr" and "remind:YYYY-MM-DD". We'll remind you via RSS, SMS, Email or IM, so long as it's RSS."
- Creating Passionate Users: The Asymptotic Twitter Curve headrush.typepad.com
"If my Cingular cell phone sends me a MySpace alert and I'm not there to get it, do I exist? But email, IMs, social networking, and blogs are nothing compared to the thing that may finally cause time as we know it to cease. I'm talking, of course, about T