Tristan and i are constantly talking about these kinds of solutions, but it's with a tiny number of people. But we want to scale this conversation to all of us. So triston and i decided to get into a studio and riff on these kinds of design solutions - exactly like we've done at facebook and twitterhead ers. You're about to hear a conversation starter, the first of many that we're going to weave throughout the series.
Natasha Dow Schüll, author of Addiction by Design, has spent years studying how slot machines hold gamblers spellbound, in an endless loop of play. She never imagined the addictive designs which she had first witnessed in Las Vegas would go bounding into Silicon Valley and reappear on virtually every smartphone screen worldwide. In the first segment of this two-part interview, Natasha Dow Schüll offers a prescient warning to users and designers alike: How far can the attention economy go toward stealing another moment of your time? Farther than you might imagine.