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User Retention

2 articles

A mobile app interface showing a soft, rolling window habit tracking design with no strict streaks.

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Jun 9, 20266 min read

Why We Killed Strict Streaks: Designing Forgiveness Into Habit Trackers

Most habit trackers punish you for missing a day. Here is why ViviDiary killed strict streaks, rejected gamified 'freeze tokens', and designed a forgiving rolling-window UX to build real momentum.

Ethan ColeRead

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A split screen showing a rejected automated mood tagging UI on the left with a red X, and Vividiary's collaborative review-and-confirm AI draft UI on the right with a green checkmark.

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May 13, 20268 min read

Emotion AI UX Design: Why We Stopped Telling Users How They Feel

We learned a hard lesson about emotion-driven product design: users don't want an algorithm dictating their feelings. Here is why we killed our auto-tagging feature.

Ethan ColeRead

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