The UX of the Dash Button is great, shopping for laundry detergent is boring, just one press and it's over. Managing your personal finances has zero to do with the dash button user experience.
The whole point is pushing the button provides no immediate feedback at all. People are used to pushing a button doing something immediately, not pushing a button and *MAYBE* something happens 48 hours from now.
As such, these buttons are unlikely to gain any kind of popularity.
Even without RTFA, the whole premise of the things is stupid. Even children have smartphones now. A smartphone can play the same little game. a QR code that one-clicked you a replacement whatever would be at least as useful.
Because pushing a single dedicated physical button is, surprisingly, much easier than finding / pulling out your phone, opening an app and selecting an item from a list. It provides no interruption to the flow of your activity. When I'm doing heavy cooking, I use a voice recorder (hardware, not app on my phone) to record ideas, tasks and things to put on the shopping list. It makes a huge difference in time and attention compared to taking even a tiny break from my current task. If it queued up user designa
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Actually great UX for everyone else (Score:4, Insightful)
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I can tell you didn't RTFA.
The whole point is pushing the button provides no immediate feedback at all. People are used to pushing a button doing something immediately, not pushing a button and *MAYBE* something happens 48 hours from now.
As such, these buttons are unlikely to gain any kind of popularity.
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Even without RTFA, the whole premise of the things is stupid. Even children have smartphones now. A smartphone can play the same little game. a QR code that one-clicked you a replacement whatever would be at least as useful.
Re:Actually great UX for everyone else (Score:2)
So then, why wouldn't you just order the thing from a cell phone app (Amazon DASH app) in the first place?
The physical button is stupid.
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