Keyboard entry and UX best practices

Many apps do not allow for expanded text. (larger sizes of text)

We realized early on in our product dev that many players like to have large text and especially when it comes to SMS, chat and messaging. The trade-off is that real estate on the screen is at a premium. Many of our screens need user input and once that keyboard comes out, half the screen is covered up.

For example, when you are creating a NEW GROUP and you're on STEP 4 to select the NAMES. If you have blown up fonts AND potentially a smaller phone, you cannot see the search results without removing the keyboard. If you've not familiar with how to do that... then you're a bit stuck.

We've added a little overlay that makes it easy to do this when it is necessary.

A UX win for our users.

Social connections enabled in the next version

What is a social connection? It means you're no longer limited to just what is in your address book. For example, if you're in a group and there are people listed who have never been in your address book, you can now connect to them directly.

• No more chasing down the person

• No more asking the person for their phone number manually ( great from a privacy POV! )

• No more 6+ steps of adding to your contacts, making a new 1-2-1

• etc etc

Now you just go to the group, find the name, tap the icon.

Here is a grab of the coming UX.

GRAB of UX

Social connections is also part of GROUP SETUP.

So instantly, your 'address book' inside DMP is now inclusive of any members in your groups who are NOT in your contact list.

That is a big step up in expanding your circle of people you play with.

We've also done some cosmetic work on the GROUP SETTINGS screen.

Hope you like it !

DMP blog post #1

Yes, we are back to the future of 2003 :-)

As a fledgling SaaS platform , we will need to be posting regular commentary, hence the blog. So this is post 1. Now that we're setup technically, time to create some semi-useful content.