Status Post 7: Loam Fever

Feb 26, 2026

Completed Tasks

Finalized Comments view

Person Responsible: Dom

Due Date: Feb 11

We updated the sliding comment view based on collected feedback.

Notifications

Person Responsible: Chem

Due Date: Feb 25

Chem updated the notifications page to support quick actions like accept and deny a request, and show time stamps.

Lobby Poster

Person Responsible: Gavin

Due Date: Feb 11

We finished the lobby poster! Added a third page so that we could spread everything out to not make it cognitively overloading. Still relying on imagery to be eye catching and convey out message the most.

Microinteraction Designs

Person Responsible: Enoch

Due Date: Ongoing

Enoch is working on microinteraction designs to add delight to the app. He's working on microinteractions that are as simple as button movements and as complex as loading screen animations.

Dev Update

Person Responsible: Ella + Max

Due Date: Feb 11

We are going to have the MVP finalized tomorrow!

Final tasks to MVP completion (most of these are done):

  • Email Reincorporation - max

  • Access Code - max

  • Profile Edit - max

  • Settings - max

    • password

    • delete account

    • sign out

    • about

  • Notifications - ella 

  • Comments - ella 

  • Profile item details (need to show comments + reactions) - ella

  • All usernames should be a link to the users profile - ella

  • Post card profile picture is too big - ella

  • Posting to a branch (Neetds QA/refinement) - max

  • share profile copy button - max

  • search bar indented?

  • When looking a branch in connections management (not edit state), action next to name should be the checkbox not “remove bud” - ella

  • create-branch create a component (can still be in the separate route, we just need to extract the functionality to be reused by login) - max

  • Make the create-post tabs cut off - max

  • post cards not centered - ella

Open Tasks

MVP QA

Person(s) Responsible: Whole Team

Due Date: March 2

Over the weekend, the entire team will be going through the MVP for one final sanity check. We'll be checking to see that the core loam tasks are all smooth and functional.

Landing Page Design

Person(s) Responsible: Joe + Gavin

Due Date: March 5

Gavin and Joe worked on first iterations for the landing page! Its looking great, more iteration to come.

Posting Multiple Photos UX

Person(s) Responsible: Dom

Due Date: March 5

Dom is working on designs for what actually posting multiple photos will look like.

New Tasks

MVP Observation

Person(s) Responsible: Dom, Joe, Gavin, Max

Due Date: March 12

We need to observe stats and behavior of the MVP focus group, we're looking to understand how our designs and feed decisions impact posting habits and general behavior.

Post MVP Survey

Person(s) Responsible: TBD

Due Date: March 12

We need to make a survey for when MVP participants have concluded their time with the MVP that asks them to reflect on their experience in the app.

MVP Onboarding

Person(s) Responsible: Dom, Joe, Gavin

Due Date: March 6

Next week we will be onboarding a few of our MVP beta users to conduct live user testing. We'll be taking them through the onboarding flow, and asking them to complete core tasks to confirm usability and intuitiveness of our designs.

Winter Presentation

Person(s) Responsible: Chem, Enoch, Max

Due Date: March 13

This one speaks for itself!

Landing Page Dev

Person(s) Responsible: Max

Due Date: March 9

Need to start building out the new landing page!

Social Posts

Person(s) Responsible: Chem Enoch

Due Date: March 6

Want to start posting our first posts!

Meet with Phil

Person(s) Responsible: Ella, Max

Due Date: March 6

We should meet with Phil for a dev check-in sanity session. Want to go over how things are going, our goals moving forward, and get his opinion on where we're at and what we should focus on.

Meetings

2026-02-05, In Person

Whole Team

Agenda
  • Check in on open tasks

  • Enoch:

    • Create a micro interactions doc (see https://socialnetworking.atlassian.net/browse/LOAM-143) and add more. Even the small ones: loading screen, tabs switching, switches on the profile, clicking a new navigation menu, clicking a button, etc

    • Go through the iconography, add more organic shapes where its needed

      • Emoji icon is a good example of where we need to add organic look and feel

    • Help with lobby poster


    Joe:

    • Notification shaping

    • Comments UX


    Dom:

    • Finalize post ux

    • Reorder feedback response

    • Elevator pitch


    Ella:

    • Dev


    Chem:

    • Physical Product

    • Desktop cleanup

    • Lobby Poster


    Gavin:


    Max:

    • Dev

    • Lobby poster imagery

    • ⁃ Feature breakdown

Work on lobby post and other open tasks

2026-02-02, In person and Zoom

Whole Team

Agenda
  • Assignment check in

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