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Daniel Peter's avatar

This gave a whole new perspective and method to have a shared understanding within the team! Thank you!

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shawanna's avatar

This was an incredible read on the thoughts or metaphors that invoke a feeling or memory in products and features. I love the balance of digestible and informational. Appreciate you sharing!

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Shivam Bhatnagar's avatar

This gives a very interesting perspective to analyse products. Also, we can build many analogies on metaphors to think more deeply about the experience. Thank you for sharing.

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Cathy's avatar

Ami, great article on the importance on such subtleties as design metaphors for a better user experience! I've a question on the decision and psychology behind the "last seen" status feature. I'd argue that it is a bittersweet experience - one that can send across multiple messages and from my research tends to lean towards a more negative one depending on the depth this status has been perceived by that human mind given the situation. Why did the team decide to roll out this feature?

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Kiran N's avatar

thank you for explaining with examples. I am building a self serve Ads product for small hotels and restaurants (think Yelp Ads). What metaphors can I use to design this product?

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