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The collection of memories and experience, in aggregate, becomes more valuable over time and the service becomes harder to leave as users’ personal investment in the site grows.
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147 |
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The more users invest in a product through tiny bits of work, the more valuable the product becomes in their lives and the less they question its use.
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160 |
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Art is often fleeting; products that form habits around entertainment tend to fade quickly from users’ lives.
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173 |
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Entertainment is a hits-driven business because the brain reacts to stimulus by wanting more and more of it, ever hungry for continuous novelty.
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174 |
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If the innovator has a clear conscience that the product materially improves people’s lives – first among them, the designer’s – then the only path is to push forward.
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175 |
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Publicly available data can from similar products or solutions can help define your users and engagement targets.
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195 |
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When it comes to developing new products, there are no guarantees. Along with creating an engaging product… start-ups must also find a way to monetize and grow.
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198 |
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…living in an always-on technological haze leads to mental exhaustion.
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26 |
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[For women,] …’contaminated time’… is a product of both role overload – working and still bearing the primary responsibility for children and home – and task density.
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27 |
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Though women are clearly doing far less now than in the 1960s and men are doing more, women still spend about twice as much time scrubbing and polishing.
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31 |
