RESEARCH - New simplified bot creation flow.

[thescurry]

Problem Statement: Locations (formally known as Bots) are hard/cumbersome to create, this results in very low user content creation. To solve this, we need to simplify the creation process and make location/bot creation simple/fast.

Details: To create a location, users have two available options. The only difference between these two options is how initial location creation works. Option #1 ask the user to search for a location (via a search box) or allows a user to drag the map to the desired location (Option 1 accessed via tapping on create "+" CTA). Option #2 (accessed via long-press on the map) simply assumes that where the user long pressed is or is close to the position the user wanted to mark (there is no search box) and the user can adjust the map if needed.

Goals:

• Make location creation very simple/easy, reduce steps needed to create a location
• Keep users on the HS (create locations within the HS)

Option #1. Tapping the create "+" CTA:

• Search for a location OR drag the map to desired location.
• Fill out required/basic information needed to describe location (shown below on option 1.0 #2). If a known location was chosen previously, we automatically name the location.
• Select pin icon/emoticon/abbreviation (shown below on option 1.0 #2).
• Post location.

Once a location is selected, the user is asked to fill out basic information to finish creating the location pin.

Option #2. Long-press on map:

• Drag map to desired location.
• Fill out required/basic information needed to describe location.
• Select pin icon/emoticon/abbreviation.
• Post location.

[southerneer]

@aksonov @bengtan let's talk about this one instead of the Thursday all-hands call?

[southerneer]

Beng, Pavel, and I talked this over on our morning call. We haven't identified any major technical roadblocks. Getting the pop-out/pop-in UI when switching from map mode to create mode and coordinating around the keyboard show/hide will take some effort, but nothing we haven't done before. @bengtan noted that this will require a backend tweak to store the selected icon but that shouldn't be a huge undertaking.

[thescurry]

@southerneer appreciate the update.

[thescurry]

We can probably close this ticket now that we have begun building out the actual "location create" tickets.

Does anyone object?

[southerneer]

that works for me