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The Offline Access Memorandum: A Documentary Retrospective
Three practice leads at EnshitifAi sat for talking-head interviews about the Walmart, Chipotle, and Starbucks engagements. We turned the cameras off when we should have.
I was hired to produce a three-minute hype reel for our annual kickoff. I ended up with eleven hours of footage my editor is calling — off the record — 'the most on-voice piece of internal communications we have ever shot, and the single thing we can never ever publish.' I am publishing it anyway.
Margaret Hennessy-Voss
Documentarian-in-Residence, EnshitifAi
The Subscription Economy Playbook: Converting Ownership Into Endless Revenue
Why sell something once when you can sell it infinitely?
The old economy was about selling products. The new economy is about selling access to products you used to sell. The next economy? Selling access to features of products you used to include for free.
Bradley Venture
Head of Subscription Optimization
Dark Patterns Are Just UX Optimization (A Reframe)
Rebranding manipulation as 'conversion-focused design'
The term 'dark patterns' is so negative. We prefer 'persuasive design architecture' or 'conversion-optimized user journeys.' Same thing, better PR.
Karen McKinsey
VP of Dark Patterns
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