{
  "id": 765406,
  "title": "Don't Make Me Think: What Actually Separates Good UX from Digital Torture",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/13/dont-make-me-think-what-actually-separates-good-ux-from-digital",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-13T12:26:56.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Dev.to",
    "slug": "dev-to",
    "url": "https://dev.to/towernter/dont-make-me-think-what-actually-separates-good-ux-from-digital-torture-354a"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "There's a rule someone dropped in a product design session that has lived rent-free in my head ever since: \"Anything digital shouldn't have more than 7 steps.\" Seven. That's it. Seven steps to register, seven steps to checkout, seven steps to do the thing your app was built to do. You're probably reading that and thinking: easy, we only have six steps. And then you count them. And then you…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}