Welcome To The Vortex: Why People Feel Trapped In Their Devices


As part of its ongoing “Life Online” research, experience design researcher Norman Nielsen Group has identified a new, troubling media pathology: that people increasingly feel like they are trapped in a vortex of digital media devices.

“The vortex is a user-behavior pattern that begins with a single intentional interaction followed …


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