Two things really stand out with this massive change for me:
- Phones being so personal, friends family and girlfriends having a different smartphone never created issues. Everyone is able to occasionally use a different interface. No big deal.
- Because no one else but me has been on a different wave with how UI/UX can be on mobile, everyone assumes that the iPhone/Android UI/UX is the best we can do.
It is the worst we can do. It has been optimized and A/B tested to oblivion to engage you beyond control. By the brightest minds of a few generations that are even more ruthless than actual Boomers. That’s why people can’t stop.
I wouldn’t be surprised if designing the phone and interface to “force” folks to use both hands all the time increases usage by 3. Apple, Google, phone carriers and everyone making money off that stuff is happy about that.
They’re not making a device to help, they’re making it to suck everything out of you. Absolutely everything.
And now, it is so clear to me. The addiction starts with the interface. Because it doesn’t respect you. It drags you. It hypnotizes you. It nags you. It makes you tap more. And no one escaped that but me?
It is keeping me up at night a bit.
I ordered a “dumb” phone or whatever the term is these days.