Introducing a new feature in a kids app
Enabling kids to send or receive links
About Messenger Kids
As the world becomes more digital, we see more kids wanting to use apps to connect with friends. But kids under the age of 13 are not legally allowed to independently download apps and create accounts without adult supervision. So at Facebook, we created Messenger Kids. Messenger Kids is a chat app with heightened security measures that allows parents to supervise their kids’’ activity within the app.
About This Project
The ability to send or receive links has been one of the most demanded feature on Messenger Kids. But until recently, we hadn’t rolled this feature out because it is a sensitive feature that could potentially expose kids to inappropriate content. Therefore, we need to carefully think through all the edge cases In this sprint, we successfully rolled out this feature by leveraging Messenger Kids, Facebook, and Messenger platform.
Team Structure & My Role
During this 3 months project, I led all the design side of this project. I collaborated with key cross functional partners to define the constraints, brainstorm how we could tackle this problem, facilitate conversation by quickly mocking up with high fidelity mockups and prototypes, and collaborated with eng and pm to define how we are going to phase the work. In this sprint, we also designed across mobile, tablet and web for this experience.
How a Kid gets opted into this feature
Scenario 1: the parent proactively adds the kid in the parent dashboard
Scenario 2: the kid requests the parent to opt the kid in
Opted In kid’s sending and receiving experience
How the parent manages the kid’s link activity
Edge Cases
Extra parental gate animation
