cabennett85/gittest — Issue #1312: Show trophies in an overlay rather than a PM
Author: cabennett85
Created: 2012-03-02 00:45:38+00:00
State: open

Trophies may have bigger impact if they have more of a 'instant gratification' feel. The idea would be to convert trophies from PMs that get issued to overlays of some sort - the notification happens, but is easily dismissed and doesn't require interrupting what the user is doing. Also, if we want to invite the user to take some action based on the trophy, that could be included as a call to action in the overlay.

Solution:

{{{
I. For trophies that occur immediately after a user action (writing a story, joining a group, etc.):
1. show a trophy overlay.

II. For trophies that occur passively (getting a comment on a story, getting five rate ups on a single story, etc.)
1. send an email (not a PM) to the user notifying them that they received a trophy.
2. the next time the user hits EP while logged in, show the trophy overlay
(in other words, if they are already logged in, they'll see this on their next page view.
Otherwise, they'll see this the next time they log in).
}}}

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overlay spec in
DB > EP Proper > Achievements (https://www.dropbox.com/home/Experience%20Project%20DropBox%20-%20Loren/EP%20Proper/Achievements?select=1-show%20trophies%20in%20overlay.pptx#/EP%20Proper/Achievements:::8175811)