Sparse interfaces force users to make context decisions that persuade-by-design removes.

Evidence

Left alone in an uncrowded interface with nothing at all being suggested to me, I realized it is finally incumbent on me to decide what to say, when, and to whom—already the beginnings of context. And like Jonathan, I felt the knee-jerk urge to join a pub, because of what I was used to. Only afterward did I question why I assume social media needs to feel like a Wall Street trading floor. — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 592

Categorization

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