Q4 — Engagement features (the actual redesign)
Today vs a candidate redesign with engagement mechanics baked in. Same content, very different widget. Click features below to vote them in/out.
Today's storyteller (baseline)
Bare carousel. Click to advance, no other interaction. This is what you ship right now.
Redesign v1 — engagement-loaded
Same content, layered with category tabs, trending/time badges, story counter, reactions, and save. Annotated below.
What changes vs today: 7 new interaction surfaces. Tabs route attention. Trending + reading time + counter + reader count create urgency and depth signals. Reactions feed a personalization loop (we learn what each reader likes, future loads weight similar stories higher). Save defers click but builds a return habit. None of this exists in storyteller today.
Mobile (redesign — ~328px wide)
Tabs scroll horizontally, reactions condense to 3 + save icon. Total height ~310px.
Pick the engagement features for v1
Click each pill to toggle in or out of the MVP. Multi-select. Anything you skip becomes "v2/maybe later."
Tabs + Trending + Reading time + Counter + Reactions (😍😢😮)
Skip "Save" and "Reader count" for v1 — Save needs cross-device account or cookie persistence (heavier infra), and reader count requires a real-time counter pipeline. Skip thumbs-up/down — emoji reactions give the same signal but are warmer.
"More like this" + "Tab-based personalization" → v2 once we have reaction data flowing.
Click pills to vote. Or describe a feature I missed.