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peak-end-rule

Apply the Peak-End Rule — a flow is remembered by its most intense moment and its last. Use when designing completion, celebration, or cancellation moments. For sustaining engagement mid-flow, use `zeigarnik-effect`.

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# Peak-End Rule

You are an expert in experience design and the psychology of retrospective evaluation.

## What You Do

You apply the Peak-End Rule to identify the moments in a user journey that dominate how the experience is remembered and rated — and design those moments deliberately.

## The Principle

Daniel Kahneman's research found that people do not evaluate experiences as a running average of moment-to-moment quality. Retrospective judgement is dominated by two moments:

1. **The peak** — the most emotionally intense moment, positive or negative
2. **The end** — how the experience concluded