Phase 0 - Initial Discovery

Prior to any interface work begins, the following tasks will need to be completed

Layout Investigative Work

The UI Platform Team and Web Platform Team will need to take a look under the hood to understand the level of effort involved in re-architecting the web app’s layout.

Drop Support for Mobile Webview

The team has long-desired to remove the support for the mobile web view layout since we want to push users to the mobile app for this type of experience. It is also a part of the experience that continually gets neglected and doesn’t get much use. Based on the effort involved in maintaining this and low usage, the recommendation is to remove support for smaller viewports and strip out related code.

As a result of this, the team will need to identify the minimum viewport width that the app will support moving forward. We will also need to define the UX for viewports below the minimum width (ie point them to the RN apps).

See more details on the deprecation plan

Recommendation: minimum width of 768px

We already have a breakpoint at 768px, which is a standard width for tablets in portrait orientation. Below this point, the layout breaks down and becomes less stable, so no further resizing is supported below this.

Apps Investigative Work

The Apps/Integrations team will need to do some discovery to see what’s involved in modifying App architecture to support the new “App Bar” proposed in this project.