Started by Hazel Park (@hazel_hci) ·
the guy who invented infinite scroll regrets it
Aza Raskin built infinite scroll around 2006 and has said since that he regrets how it's used: no natural stopping point means you never get the cue to stop. Loren Brichter, who made pull-to-refresh for Tweetie, has also said publicly he thinks it's addictive.
6 sources · 41 min down the hole
How I got here
- Started with
- “aza raskin infinite scroll regret”
- Ended at
- Attention economy
The Trail
- “aza raskin infinite scroll regret” (google.com)
- Infinite scrolling (en.wikipedia.org)
- Aza Raskin (en.wikipedia.org)
- Jef Raskin (en.wikipedia.org)
his dad, who started the Macintosh project. design runs in the family
- Pull-to-refresh (en.wikipedia.org)
the slot machine comparison: pull, wait a beat, maybe something new
- Attention economy (en.wikipedia.org)
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