There’s this design heuristic that if people cut across the grass, you should pave the shortcut they make. This gives the path a lovely human fit. But sometimes you want to do the opposite. You want to design ways to get people to take a longer path, a longcut, so they can see or do things they’d miss otherwise.
On Shortcuts and Longcuts
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the internet is now so embedded within the human developmental process.
it's not merely a collection of servers and clients.
its evolutions shape us with each passing generation.
in turn, we shape its evolution, feeding into what it has fed us.
it follows from 4E cogsci that app/site interfaces will drastically affect our cognitive development. at leas
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