Wisdom

Past a point, more simplicity onboards users who don't understand what they did

Quote

we can spend a monumental amount of effort to get an extra 5% ease of use here. But once you get that, then what you what your end, what you end up with, is that you've you've on boarded a user who doesn't understand what they've just done.

Episode 32: oh yeah we got lightning in a bottle baby Don't worry all become apparent (approx., from transcript intro) 00:44:12 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Building Podcast Wallet, Dave found a threshold. You keep making onboarding simpler until you hit reality: a monumental effort buys an extra 5 percent ease of use, and the result is a user who doesn't understand what they've done, which opens a new set of support problems.

Not in the audio. Guest episode; the quote comes from an 8-cue Dave run that continues Dave's thought about Podcast Wallet.