Dynamic placeholders

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SlackMay 2024

During onboarding, Slack will use your company information to show dynamic placeholder text—like example email addresses.

Dynamic placeholders
Summary
Related psychology:Tribalism, Familiarity Bias
Impacts:Happiness & Enjoyment
UI Components:Data Fields, Dynamic Components
Behind The Bite

This is a really subtle way of making the process feel more personalised.

They've already collected your email address (say @microsoft.com), they might as well make the placeholders more dynamic and specific to you.

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