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robzand: a lesson courtesy of amazon windowshop: you can’t control serendipity
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stribs · 1 year agoGreat post. It looks like you can beat the flaw you describe by clicking on the item you want to look at instead of using your arrow keys - however, that's not the model you're presented with upon coming to the site.
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Andrew Green · 1 year agoThis is great, Rob. It highlights one essential characteristic of a serendipitous experience -'skim-ability' That is, creating an ultra-low ability for a user to browse content in a skimming fashion. I would argue that we even need to go beyond diagonal control... but it would be a nice start to get away from 'scientific discovery' and towards 'serendipitous discovery'.
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robzand · 1 year agoi am fine with going beyond diagonal. just give me some type of "i'm feeling lucky" mechanism
