Wednesday, February 21, 2018

Baking mischief and delight into your products will make people love them


One boozy night in 2010, two developers and an illustrator were sitting in a bar discussing how utterly annoying they found the game FarmVille. As you probably remember, FarmVille was that horribly addictive social network game that let you grow crops and raise livestock, polluting your Facebook newsfeed with endless notifications about how to tend to your farm. After a few more drinks, the group decided to figure out a way to mess with the game. They sketched up an app which let you post updates identical to those of FarmvilleĆ¢€™s, but instead, the messages were much moreĆ¢€¦ savage. From…

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