2023-02-24 FC-0011 Meeting notes

Overview

Marco

• Started covering overview of project goals, an initial list of questions for the project

• Key among these questions was the 2U mobile team lead’s thoughts on the prototype demo for the new mobile repositories

• Marco’s Paraphrased summary of teams thoughts on prototype in next entry (these notes were formulated after meeting based on very rough bullet points!)

Mobile Proof of Concept high level thoughts

Colin / Poornima

• Clear architectural improvements in new application

• Much of the core application exists in the current proof of concept (RG-POC) as demoed, though following the pareto principle it may be that the 20% remaining is 80% of the development time (something to size / understand as part of this project for sure!)

• Excitement to switch over to / use the new foundation proposed by RG-POC though timelines and how to get to this switch are still very much TBD for 2U (but also by extension all others using the applications as they exist today!)

• Modularity of code based due to architectural improvements might also help with migration

• MVVM model is helpful for communtiy development

  • Currently using MVC for iOS (maybe the same for Android)

  • Architecture should facilitate richer theming, customization, etc.

  • Shared navigation would still be complex and require more refactoring to handle.

  • core vs plugin model for mobile apps is a distinction is worth a detailed deep dive.

• Likely 6 figure development cost estimate for next steps and feature gap closure

Key Feature Gap areas for RG-POC

• Key areas that aren’t yet in the RG-POC:

  • Video offline mode

    • Video storage settings / SD card storage / etc

  • Login experience items

    • Auth via JWT? / Social Auth / etc

  • Analytics tracking

  • Programs

  • Discovery / search ?

  • Ecommerce

  • Dates

  • Progress Visualizations

  • Motivation Messaging

• General note that many items from the last 2 years of the apps development not yet in the RG-POC and would need to be sized / incorporated

• Should identify impact of what phones are supported by new patterns, are any older phones not covored that are critical to still support?

New Features / Roadmap from 2U

Poornima

• Still have information / context to gathers from others at 2U (including Ashley, Poornima to follow up internally)

• Example Areas (some in progress others in queue)

  • In Progress Navigation Updates and changes based on design research done to date

  • Course Dashboard / Home - designs exist here

New Feature Areas / Directions

All

• Offline Text / Problem components

• Improved Mobile authoring (mobile previews, section titles, etc)

• Improved Completion Rates

  • via gamification, nudging, celebrations (v1 exists for celebrations)

• Course Home as hub + happiness not listing and logistics

• Notification support and settings for this

• Improved Localization (including RTL)