How your apps are designed to manipulate you

Every notification is a dollar sign.

Michael J. Fordham
UX Collective
Published in
9 min readJul 20, 2019

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Illustration of people putting social networks on a phone screen.

Every day I get a notification from Twitter. “This person you follow just liked this person who you don’t follow’s tweet”.

Ok, what’s this tweet about?

I’ll look at the tweet for a few seconds, most of the time it’s nothing I care about.

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Software engineer interested in the future of innovative UX. I mainly write about design, development, data and AI. www.michaeljfordham.com