Definition Progress

• Summary
• Rationale
• Success Metrics
• External Dependencies
• Unknowns
• Product Plan
  • Prototyping
  • MVP
  • User stories
  • User Story Phab Tickets
  • Metrics Implementation
  • Metrics Phab Tickets
  • Estimates
  • Delivery Date

Summary

Simplify app navigation to provide better visibility and increase engagement within the most important parts of the application.

Goal Visibility

Internal

Rationale

The current version of the app is mostly focused on "browser" based navigation of articles. Users can get the same or similar experience in the mobile web browser. In order to improve UX and take advantage of platform technologies, we want to decrease the reliance on web UI as the primary interface of the application.

Additionally, the majority of the native functionality is tucked away within the left "W" menu. This reduces engagement with these items since they are "hidden" most of the time. To improve the engagement with these items, we want to make them easier to get to for users.

Success Metrics

Engagement with items previously in side menu (recent and saved) is greater than before

Demonstrates that users were and are interested in these features, and that engagement suffered because they were buried in the side menu

Average number of saved pages per user is higher than before the design

Demonstrates that saving pages is a useful feature, but because the saved page list was not in the primary navigation users did not feel it was worthwhile to save pages for later

External Dependencies

None

Unknowns

None

Product Plan

Prototyping

No - user testing will be done in the alpha/beta channels and then iterated on afterwards

MVP

A new navigation hierarchy with these items in the primary navigation (i.e. single tap away):

• Discover
• Recent
• Saved
• Search
• Settings (aka More menu)

See scratch pad architecture here:
http://etherpad.wikimedia.org/p/AppsNav

User Stories

Metrics Implementation

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Timeline Estimate

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Delivery Estimate

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