Missionary Interfaces

Why is a man, contrary to the calls of all moralists, still not as right and good as he should have been a long time ago? And is it possible for modern interfaces to somehow take into account the real desires and whims of their users?

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- Are you kidding me? - a young fragile girl, rolling her eyes beautifully, pulls vowels, frankly flirting with her young companion. I pass by and hear this "scoffing." This “aaaaaaa” is so sweetly pulled by such a fragile creature, its well-coordinated body is so overwhelmed with languor that no one else has doubts - she wants to be bullied. She approves and longs for it.

People love bullying. It is strange that user experience specialists forgot about this. People tend to enjoy muscle fatigue, the vivid emotions of fear, and just the sensation of pain. Without bullying, the palette of colors of life would be incomplete and very fresh.

But when developing the next interface, we all suddenly start talking like we got started: a simple and convenient interface, nice colors, a feeling of comfort and bliss when interacting, and a light half-nap at the final stage of the user scenario ...

Is this all about us, about living people? Is this something we are ready to exchange endless sweetness in the mouth for the conquest of Everest and the discovery of new continents, to fight with ourselves and with all injustice in the world, for daily overcoming ourselves and a sense of pride in our children?

Well, no, we are not like that. After all, we are still alive.

Gamification remains a small loophole through which, as it turns out, it is still permissible to make the interface not too simple and pleasant - but purely for the sake of the fan. For the sake of achieving some imaginary goal, to get the next achivement - sometimes, in some places, it’s still permissible for a sloness to torment his user a little. But so far only in games. And more - nowhere.

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Our whole life is a game. All his life from birth to the grave, a person sets himself imaginary goals: to stand on two legs, get a five at school, start a family, make a career, wait for your turn in a clinic - these are all the same game goals.

Going to which through sweat and blood, through torment and humiliation - a man becomes a Man, grows and develops, opening up new possibilities and frontiers. Is it necessary to divide the virtual universe into games and NOT games, is it worth creating the far-fetched boundaries of the genres of interfaces in the flow of life of an ordinary person? I am convinced that no. And it is not a matter of the target audiences at all: to fight and win, to make discoveries and to fail, equally excite schoolchildren and pensioners, men and women, hipsters and hard workers. The difference is only in the desired goals, but not in the chemical composition of the endorphins obtained by realizing which bullying just managed to overcome and come out alive and stronger.

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But, unfortunately, it’s depressing for now the ponderousness of marketers and designers, designers and product specialists in the matter of immersion in the field of enjoying human pain. Here is a case in point - the Pure application, which has long and competently sought a designer for itself, perfectly illustrating human lust and passion, violence and lust of lust, human pain and rapture at the same time. So a year has passed, the application has been updated more than once - and what do we see? Has it begun to inflict pain and torment on its target audience at least at the level of the State Services portal?

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Alas and ah: black bottom, white top , that is, I'm sorry: black background and red hearts. All that is missing is a velvet curtain and a woman in a mask with feathers - to collect all the most ridiculous stereotypes of the genre at once.

Not a single whip or handcuff, not a single scar, not an animation in the form of putting on a slave mask on your interlocutor, nothing that would show sex exactly as it is in life. And in life, sex is always next to violence, next to power, next to pain, next to rebellion against the morality and conventionality of the gray majority. But nothing more “gray” than red hearts is simply impossible to imagine.

No, guys, in this format, even an online recording in a typical clinic is still much more about a site about sex and prohibitions, about an irrepressible desire and an endless delay of final ecstasy. For now, registering your child with the right specialist is much more gamification than catching Pokemon. Learn and learn again from the best!

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And why did everyone suddenly decide that flogging their user is a priori bad, and light breathing in the ear through the earphone is the pinnacle of vulgarity and indecency? Sometimes it seems that only old communist grandfathers go to work in IT, who have never seen a single porn movie.

The human psyche is much more multifaceted and it is always ready to adapt to the changing conditions of reality. So a man survived and evolved millions of years, customizing his own system of values ​​and ways of enjoying under the changing rules of the game, weather conditions, available technical capabilities.

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Man has not adapted himself for thousands of years so that the interface now adapts to him. This is not the norm.

Make him feel the taste of life and the threat from natural incomprehensible forces again, give him the opportunity to give you pleasure (and not just get yourself), make him learn new skills and feelings. Most people are far from alpha males in their original potential - and that means that the pleasure of submission, worship and adoration of someone else's power - this is our main feature (look at least at "Applesexuals").

Yes, it will turn out to think in a new way not at once and not at all. The main thing that I have so far determined for myself is to clearly set the final goal, guaranteed to promise to receive a full dose of pleasure at the finish line. A very convex and foreseeable task should be given, for the sake of which a person will agree to endure the torture of inventing a password longer than 8 characters or manually entering his zip code (which no one will ever remember). For example, there should no longer be vulgar and formal promises from the site manager “Call back and clarify within an hour”. Where is the buzz here? For the sake of what I endured this torture for the last half hour, comprehending your site - certainly not for the sake of a dry clerical "chime".

“You just tormented for the whole 35 seconds filling out our delivery form. Oh, we all know about the power of this unbearable pain, but now our best employee Veroknik is already in awe, anticipating you future dialogue. If you agree to her small whim in the form of an advance payment, then she will tear off the last covers of decency and allow you free delivery to any, absolutely any address in Moscow. Yes, it will be at a loss to us, but she is too bad a girl. And you will soon be convinced of it yourself ... "

Why not? What is in the way? Do not even try? Just because we are all 90 years old and we never watch porn?

Well, go ahead - such a lively and ingenuous couple of lovers - today they will not scoff at you. They just do not know how. There is still too much evangelism and missionary visible.

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