User Experience

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the numbers on polymarket's buttons have always been confusing to me.

it presents the price per outcome you want to bet, which is the least useful information, imho.

i always feel embarrassed by how much time it takes to realize that the price per bet corresponds to the percent of that outcome (i.e. 64¢ means 64% odds).

i also have no desire to think about betting in terms of "shares." i just want to bet $100 on yes or no and quickly determine how much i'd make if i win.

which of these button patterns accomplishes that?

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The UX of betting is pretty bad imo

No matter how many times I ask friends to explain it to me, I can’t get myself to intuitively understand what -220 means

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Imo, this is a good thing. Because it prevents people from betting money on shit they don’t really understand to begin with.

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Yeah except I’m sure these companies have already optimized for weaseling people out of their money

so maybe it’s designed to be somewhat opaque on purpose?

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I dunno. Even the UX to fund your wallet is janky. 

I think it’s just easy to make money when you run a functional prediction market with trusted contracts on a low fee network in a world full of people starved of high defi yields and NFT froth.

Oh I was talking about the sports betting apps mainly

Polymarket I’ll chalk up to inexperience

Also, if Polymarket addressed some pretty straightforward low hanging fruit UX-wise, I wonder if that would make quality of the predictions greater or lesser.

Like, does filtering people willing to put up with wallet busy work and confusing betting flows result in more informed guesses?

Ohhhh. Dark patterns abound there for sure.