[mrcoles]

Love this! Are you exploring more variations in the avatar expressions or does keeping it more limited work better?

Also, are there any unexpected positive or negative outcomes so far? For example, do people feel pressured to smile or anything else like that?

[dsaffy]

Thanks!

I'm still exploring for sure - but there are benefits to some of the limits. I'd love a more realtime mode for when people are actually in a conversation in our product, but haven't gotten that working perfectly yet.

We initially felt pressure to smile before I made the default a pseudo-smile (check out the three faces in the blog post). Now the "neutral" face looks somewhat happy so no more complaints.