John RodriguesAI Design Engineer | Designing 0→1 AI native Products

Podcast with Founder of Olo. Check out the full episode on my YouTube channel. #podcast #ux

23 Jun 2024 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube podcast (host John Rodrigues interviewing the founder of Olo) focused on the founder's motivation to design simplicity into their wellness product. The founder reports researching existing wellness apps, finding them dissatisfying due to low retention and static, 'school-like' content that feels like work for users—this motivated pursuing a simpler, more engaging approach.

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So, like, what was your inspiration for that simplicity in your product, and how was that journey to come to that simplicity?
Well, of course, I did, like, research with what was out there, and I felt quite dissatisfied with it and also talked to other people and I was curious, like, why is all these wellness apps so low retention rates? Or why is the content often quite stag, static and flat? And we're kind of asking people to do concentration meditation on top of a static content. And it felt a bit. And what I heard from people, it's, it's so it feels like work. It feels like somebody's asking you to sit down. It feels like school, in a way. And, and.