Candidate app direction · OOUX + IxD + IA + PLG

Composed User Story Prototype

Hypothesis: The strongest models can work together as one smooth user story: sample aha, Passage stage, Retelling Style + Fidelity, Performance capability, Continue, and shareable artifact.

Primary objectPassage → Retelling → Performance → Listening Session

Mental modelBring text, retell it with a chosen medium and source distance, hear it, continue it, then share the useful artifact.

IA implicationThe app is passage-first; retelling controls are contextual; performance is contextual; growth asks follow value.

PLG lensAha creates a shareable before/after retelling and a tester/invite ask only after the user experiences value.

What to try

Step through the story
Change retelling controls
Preview local vs expressive performance
Notice when share/invite appears

ORCA focus

Passage owns Original and Retelling
Retelling owns Style and Fidelity
Performance owns Voice Capability
Listening Session owns Continue
Shareable Retelling is the PLG artifact

IxD states

Choose proof sample
Generate retelling
Adjust style/distance
Play local
Preview expressive
Save/continue
Share after aha

YAGNI cuts

No account wall
No bottom nav
No persistent voice bar
No advanced settings before aha

Working user story

Proof sample1/5

Pick a proof passage

PLG starts with value: try before paste.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep.

Decision prompt