What i want to share in this post is my thought about friction and how it affects us when doom scrolling or procrastinating in general.
I tend to scroll reels a lot on my phone, sometimes (my phone is pretty old) my screen just freezes or lags and feels so unresponsive, like it completely breaks the flow. These lags feel so infuriating, to me at least, to the point that i stop. And thats interesting is, in those moments, I don’t try to “push through” it. I just stop. I exit. I go do something else without even thinking twice.
And that got me thinking. It’s not motivation that stopped me. It wasn’t discipline either. It was friction.
So what if instead of trying to fight bad habits directly, we just engineer friction into them? Like deliberately making the UX slightly worse at the right moments so your brain naturally opts out.
What do yall think? i already have a prototype and it feels kinda powerful