“ The best user experiences are those who start as immediately rewarding to the individual user, continue to be constantly rewarding with their continued participation and generates a positive network effect with the participation of others (the web itself is a giant application of this but so are successful web sites like Amazon, eBay, Flickr, del.icio.us, Facebook etc). The worse user experiences are those who start by telling people how wonderful and amazing their reward would be if they agree to painstakingly walk this trail for miles and keep telling them the reward is around the corner. The semantic web has always reminded me of that.
Stefano’s Linotype » The “Trail of Candy” Design Pattern
