The Challenge

Reimagine the “Like” Button

I remember being young, maybe age 10-12, and watching the news with my parents. The reporters were talking about the emergence of social media, explaining to viewers “likes” and “follows”, and other new terms. What I remember most vividly was the explanation of the hashtag. No longer known as a “pound” symbol, the # had evolved into a symbol of trends and internet slang (especially in the early 2010s). Flash forward to my time in college, these symbols had become familiar to pretty much everyone, for better or for worse.

In my Design class, as we learned the ins and outs of Adobe Creative Suite, we were tasked to reimagine and redesign the like button using animation. My team picked the word “amazed” from a list of emotions that would be used to inspire our design.

The Work

The Exploding Heart