{"id":1412,"date":"2014-08-14T13:19:13","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T13:19:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notes.nicedream.net\/?p=1412"},"modified":"2014-08-14T13:19:13","modified_gmt":"2014-08-14T13:19:13","slug":"delight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/delight\/","title":{"rendered":"Delight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Roose on <a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/daily\/intelligencer\/2014\/08\/silicon-valley-whimsy-is-trumping-usefulness.html\">delight<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cDelight\u201d and \u201cdelightful\u201d have become all-purpose marketing words in the tech world, trotted out to describe anything even marginally surprising or well made&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>For those of us who depend on companies like Amazon and Google to create the products than run our lives, the delight backlash is overdue. Perhaps, with seamless operation becoming Silicon Valley\u2019s metric of choice, the fetishization of design will give way to a renewed emphasis on what works. Now, that would be delightful.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kevin Roose on delight: \u201cDelight\u201d and \u201cdelightful\u201d have become all-purpose marketing words in the tech world, trotted out to describe anything even marginally surprising or well made&#8230; For those of us who depend on companies like Amazon and Google to create the products than run our lives, the delight backlash is overdue. Perhaps, with seamless&#8230; <a class=\"view-article\" href=\"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/delight\/\">View Article<\/a>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1413,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicedream.net\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}