Day 130 — Publishing a New Update and 2 More Feature Designs
Today I wrapped up the week with an update to our content and design of a couple new potential features.
Here’s what I did.
Publishing New Content
This morning I published a new content module to our app. We use Expo’s publish command, which allows the update to be “over-the-air” without actually requiring an app upgrade.
Download the app to check out the new “monitoring” module, plus 2 new spaceship games!
Feature Updates
Feature 1 — Points
One of the features I’m really excited will improve app usage — and fun — is implementing a points system. It’s something Duolingo does extremely well, so I riffed off their approach with our own unique superhero spin to it.
Levels and points have the added benefit that we can encourage competition between users and additional social features.
Here’s the dashboard view of the feature:
Feature 2 — Group Polls
Another social feature I thought might be interesting to try out is a group poll feature. So far, all of the question types in our app have a right or wrong answer. But life with diabetes and other chronic conditions includes a lot of “gray area”, too. So I thought we could show the spectrum of answers that users are answering, and in the process, show users they’re most definitely not alone in their perspectives.
What’s Next?
Time to test these features!
