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I think the author might be concluding too much from a period of boredom. Shouldn't we design tools primarily for busy, distracted people who have better things to do than mess around with our UI?


I don’t think so, at least not universally. If your app is a journal, editor, photo library, or a video player it’s not in your interest to have the user diving into other programs or multitasking. In those cases what they’re comfortable with and what works best for them is more important. Since you’ll come back to the program again and again or for deep work, the long term payoff can be worth messing around with the ui.




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