Introducing: Facebook extensions & web views
Up until now, there was no way to properly prototype a Facebook Extension interaction and to add a web view preview. From today you will be able to, with Botsociety!
Facebook Chat extension
A Facebook Messenger Chat Extension is like a micro-app that you can embed into a Facebook Messenger experience. The cool thing about it is that it can take place inside a conversation between two or more users. Something like
It’s really powerful, and it requires a different design process compared to a Facebook Messenger chatbot. In order to properly design a Facebook Messenger chat extension, the steps are usually:
- Produce a hypothesis of an ongoing conversation between two or more users
- Define the moment when the user opens the Messenger Chat Extension
- Define and design the screens shown inside the extension
- Define the output of the extension inside the chat
- Repeat from point 1 until you are finished!
From today, you can now use Botsociety to create a high-resolution prototype of those steps. You can use the graphical design application of your choice for step 3 — Sketch for example — and then upload its output to Botsociety.
Facebook Messenger update: Webview
Following the same idea, you can now add custom web view inside a Facebook Messenger chatbot preview. We decided to take the same approach: You can design the web view with your favorite graphical tool — such as Sketch — and then upload its output to Botsociety. We will then take care of showing you how it will exactly look like during the chatbot experience, on iOS and Android.
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Originally published at Botsociety Journal.
