What Ted Gioia thinks about design

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Music critic and cultural historian, author of eleven books including Music: A Subversive History, who writes The Honest Broker on Substack about music, books, media and culture. His 2024 "State of the Culture" essay put the phrase "dopamine culture" into wide circulation.

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4 Mar 2024

Our readingScrolling and swiping interfaces are designed to prevent closure, so that the user never reaches an end and keeps going.

Their wordsThey aren’t designed to solve your problem, but actually aim to prevent closure, and create an illusion that there are still infinite choices available to you.

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