41 / COLLABORATION
Presence Avatars
The problem
Without a presence indicator, you don't know who else is currently viewing or editing.
The solution
A live avatar stack shows active participants with overflow counting.
Experiment
Task: Watch collaborators join and leave.
NAIVE
No presence shown
3 active
active3
visible0
overflow0
THOUGHTFUL
M
D
P
3 active
active3
visible3
overflow0
Play with the values
4
How it works
Seen in
Shared documents
See at a glance who is currently in the doc.
Design files
Avatar stacks show active collaborators on the canvas.
Dashboards
Know who else is monitoring the same view.
Meetings
Participant lists update as people join and leave.