Team Bear: Usability Report

Usability Report

Problem Severity Description Fix Done?
Frequency <-> Notification Mismatch High If you set your learning frequency to “3–4x per week,” the notification screen ignores that and still defaults to a daily reminder. The two settings are never connected, so users either get spammed or miss days entirely. Will completely redesign the”frequency set up” dropdown. It will be a fully customizable frequency set up page where users can multi-select dates that they want to be reminded to microlearn, as well as the time for each day. Completed
Anchor Statement Breaks on Vague Input High If someone skips a field or picks “unsure” during onboarding, the anchor statement generator just breaks. It literally says “unsure”. There’s no fallback. We need a safe default or a “not sure yet” option so it degrades gracefully. Remove “Unsure” button from the onboarding flow. Replace it with 1-2 times a week. We realize we don’t have an option for less than 3-4 times a week. Completed
Onboarding vs. App Looks Like Two Different Products  High Onboarding uses Reckless Condensed + Fragment Mono, but the rest of the app (home, settings, log) uses Playfair + Inter. Testers noticed it felt disjointed. This was just a merging issue. We will definitely make the UI consistent on the final product.  Completed
Pills in Onboarding Looks Editable  Medium The “think of something you already do” field looks like a text button, people in testing didn’t realize they could not type there.  Will just make those pills regular texts. Completed
Anchor Statement Can’t Be Edited (On the Home Screen)  Medium The auto-generated statement is what users see on their home screen every day, but there’s no way to change it (without going into settings) if it feels wrong. We should let people edit it inline from the home screen. We will make the anchor statement fully customizable, so users can even come up with their own statements. However, the app will continue to generate an initial anchor statement based on onboarding selections.  Completed
Anchor Settings Edit Is Hard to Discover Medium You can edit your anchor activity and time in Settings, but it’s not obvious.  Users took longer to find it during testing. The rows need a visible edit indicator or the option should be surfaced somewhere more prominent. We may just include it intuitively on the home page. Completed
Notification Timing Options Are Limited Medium Right now you can only pick 15 min, 30 min, or 1 hour before your anchor. A few testers wanted same-time or a custom option. Easy to add later, low priority for now. We’ll use a fully customizable time scrolling pop up. Completed
Today’s Picks Feels Generic  Low The suggested content is static and has nothing to do with what the user is actually learning. Adding a source by pasting a URL is clunky. Eventually this should adapt to the user’s topics and logged media, but it’s not urgent. Right now everything is hardcoded. In the future we aim to have the suggested page consensually track the user’s activities across sites to better come up with suggestions.  Completed
Trends & Insights Needs Visual Polish Medium The screen works but feels a bit bare. The favourite format card takes up too much visual weight and the weekly dots are pretty small. Also, learning topics from onboarding aren’t reflected here at all yet. Fix the UI. Could also include a new “Topics Engaged With” insight which displays what topics the user most frequently engaged with throughout the week/month. Make the analytics date range adjustable (instead of defaulting to all-time). Completed
Learning Topics Go Nowhere After Onboarding Low Users pick learning topics during setup but they never appear in the anchor statement, home screen, or trends view. It feels like a dead-end input. These should show up somewhere meaningful  ideally in the generated statement or on the home screen. Learning Topics would ideally influence the “Suggested Topics” page, but this would is not a high priority right now since we are defaulting to hardcoding some topic suggestions for the demo. Not Started
No option to “Add more anchors” in Settings High Users noticed that we can only pick on anchors. They expressed that it would be useful if they could have more than 1 anchors to adhere to. Include a “Add more anchors” option in the settings page. Include the same customizable time format. Completed

 

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