You can skip through lessons that you already know, or you can watch the video at a faster speed if you find that part easy.

During the course, pause at the following stages to think about these questions:

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Viewing a post

When your users open a post, you should choose how the post appears to them. If you are mostly interested in users seeing a photo or video, then that media should take up as large a space as possible. If you are providing a way for your users to post text or audio, or some other media, then you should arrange the screen components to show the media in an interesting way.

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Add commenting

You should decide how you want to show comments to users. You could arrange the comments by date, or you could decide on a system where comments are given priority depending on the user. As the designer of this app, you can determine how users can use your features. And the way that users navigate and use your app will decide on what sort of community you are creating through your app.

 

Discover Screen

Discover pages are an interesting part of social media apps - they can determine which posts get popular. You can decide the way that posts get arranged - you get to decide what makes a good post and how to encourage the sort of community you think your app should create. For example, if you want your app to encourage sharing ideas for making things, you could create a like button that shows that someone has made the same thing as the original post maker. Or if you want your users to share ideas about books, you could make a like button that shows a user likes someone’s review of a book.

 

Reporting and Flagging

Reporting systems are notoriously difficult to implement well, and to make sure that abusive and unfair behaviour gets stopped before anyone sees it. It is your responsibility as an app developer to think about these possibilities, and to have a plan for as many eventualities as you and your testers can think of before they happen. You should make a policy as early as possible that you, your testers, other team members and users can agree to. There is more information on user testing in the next unit.

 

Publishing your app

If you have reached this stage, and you have tested your app as much as you can, then you’re ready to publish your app! This step does require payment to Adalo to complete all the steps necessary to make your app available to the public. Make sure you have asked other people to test your app before you publish so that any obvious errors are removed before it goes live.