Release Notes
Summary
Voxie ships lots of updates, and those changes are all documented. But we don’t tell a good story with these releases. Showing key changes off in a visual/narrative structure should help gain trust and show progress to our install base.
Research
Many other applications do this well, we made a list of products and software that we feel handle this well. From there did some quick surveying of how each handles sharing progress with their users.
Plan
UI team to handle this for now until we develop a standard process we can have others follow.
- In-app Notification
- App Nav Updates
- Marketing Post
We think the best communications are handled across the company in a respectful way. Pop-up that respects a “Don’t show me again” settings. Allows for those who want to know to see. For efficiency-minded that don’t want to be blocked from completing their immediate task. These folks can choose to see updates from Navbar or from RSS feeds in marketing site.
We don’t think that a set cadence or sharing all releases in this manner is the best plan. We think that significant or visually compelling changes should rise to this level of notification. Our plan is to make ad-hoc visualizations for this. We don’t want this to feel bolted on or from another system. We expect the highest design polish on these stories.
We should have a final plan and first post soon.