Designing Interfaces That Think
summary
Argues attention is the scarce bandwidth that does not scale while compute power exponentially increases and delivers the concrete number 60 notifications a day. Shows a café experiment and a piled notification screenshot, claims OS or platform must encode operating-system identity to snooze, group and rewrite notifications, points to Facebook Home as a failed takeover and to filters/configurable rules as the practical tool, and proposes programmable user-side filters and timed queuing that actually prevent a usability cliff.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 4:15Tunnel Vision
- 10:17Stephen Wiltshire
- 26:44Situational Awareness
- 29:53Digital Identity
- 30:51Your Identity Is How You Manage Your Attention
- 31:27The Best Place To Embed Identity into Our Devices Is the Operating System Why
- 41:34Assumptions
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