Cat on Chair · B2C · cat-themed focus timer app
Let users pet the cat: it meows when tapped or when you say its name
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What they did
Collected feedback via UserDroid (free feedback board). Users asked to interact with the cat, so a meow animation was added that triggers when you tap the cat or say its name out loud.
- Stage
- product
“So they wanted to actually interact with the cat, to pet the cat, so we added a meow animation that triggers when you tap on the cat or just say its name out loud.”
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