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After a defeat people want encouragement, not a list of their mistakes — so a learning product should lead with what the user did well.

Drawn from what Albert Cheng said

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design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

motivation What makes effort feel worth it: the neuroscience of wanting to act, apathy, dopamine, and habit.

What Albert Cheng actually said

  1. Albert Cheng Head of growth at Chess.com
    When you lose a game now as opposed to surfacing your blunders and your like horrible stuff that you did, we flip it on its head. And so we show you your brilliant moves, your best moves. And we have coach say something encouraging. You know, losing just part of learning like keep it up, that type of thing. That change alone was pretty dramatic for us. It grew game reviews by 25%, subscriptions by 20%

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