The UX Collective piece 'The Face Was Never the Point' leads with one claim: animacy is triggered, not designed. That is the entire publicly visible argument.
No data, no case studies, no named systems appear in the syndicated excerpt. The full article may support the thesis, but nothing here confirms it.
If the distinction between designing for animacy versus designing triggers that produce it interests you, the full piece at UX Collective is where that argument either holds or collapses.
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