Building Articles Functionality

Highlights

• Improved articles functionality and interface

• Better empty-state design

• Push notifications for subscriptions

• Improved Web App UI

Improved articles functionality and interface

Tierra worked with Libry to hear feedback in a beta testing phase about how their "Ideas" articles feature needed an upgrade. It needed more flexibility and functionality - plain text and one image was not enough, and it failed to meet the "Must Have" standards of the industry they operated in. In this release, Tierra built an ability to format text in bold, italics, and underline, in addition to standard image embedding functionality.

Onboarding encouragement

Tierra firstly designed a beautiful empty state profile page. Previously, Libry had an empty state that created no guidance for the user on what they should be doing on the app. This is the result, developed and designed with expediency to satisfy the immediate need for users:

Tierra plans to build an iteration on this soon that increases the conversion rate from empty-state to the first high investment interaction, which for Libry is posting for the first time.

Push notifications when a creator you have added has posted content

Another core "Must Have" for Libry was push notifications when someone you are subscribed to posts something. Tierra built this with an infrastructure that will allow Libry in the future to control how many notifications go out successively, and how many should be grouped together so as to not be an annoyance for users.

Improved Web App UI

Tierra redesigned the Libry web app to be minimalist in order to encourage app downloads, which were Libry's priority at the time. The interface had to reach parity with the mobile app in functionality and design.

The interfaces previously built by Libry featured inconsistent design. Our team made them look and feel the same, so that the user spends less time figuring out how to use Libry, and more time making their content available to the world.

Essential user settings were previously only available in Libry's mobile apps. Tierra shared the importance of having accessible data control features in the web app, and so features such as password changes and account deletion were made accessible via a new Settings interface.

Continuous discovery is key to Tierra's product management approach. In order to bring in a steady stream of user feedback ,we placed a feedback form within the web app.

Work completed by: Bilal Pervez, Tharik Rizan, Hasitha Chamupathi, Pasan Nissanka, Dasha Boychuk.