Mobile: Smart Walk-Thru Building Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices

Last Updated November 8, 2022

Smart Walk-Thru Building Tips, Tricks, and Best Practices

There are a few UI differentiators to be aware of as you plan your Smart Walk-Thru implementation:

Segmentation for a Mobile Smart Walk-Thru implicitly includes the SWTs ability to start. I.e., If a SWT's segmentation rules are evaluated as true, but the SWT's associated elements are not currently shown, the SWT will not start (and will also not attempt to start in the background);
Mobile Smart Walk-Thrus can be triggered by autoplay rules (Static Triggers) like any campaign, or as linked campaigns from a Launcher or a ShoutOut. When linking a SWT from another campaign's CTA, you can include a safe start deep link that the user will be redirected to before the SWT starts. This feature is meant for the SWT to be able to start after the CTA is tapped;
- Additionally, as of WalkMe Mobile SDK 1.13.0, when linking to a Walk-Thru from a campaign, you can select which step to start the Walk-Thru from:

Add all the pending steps you think you may need (extra is fine) in the correct order, and then delete un-needed steps afterwards;
Flows should be very simple;
Remember: Mobile tasks are generally very quick. End-users generally want to get in and out as quickly as possible while on mobile devices.

Power Mode's Edit Walk-Thru feature is designed to make tweaks to an existing Walk-Thru that requires mending. Do not use Edit Walk-Thru in order to transform an existing Walk-Thru from one flow to another;
After editing a Walk-Thru, review it in the Mobile Console and adjust texts and design;
Make sure steps you add don't break the existing Walk-Thru flow.

Step titles should be very concise;
To guide end-users without any interruptions, ensuring they complete a process, use Spotlight Steps:
This is ideal for flows that only require that end-users click the screen and/or enter simple text;
For non-sequential and less predictable tasks, such as form validation, Balloons (formerly Tooltips) are more appropriate than Spotlights Steps:
Designing steps is a much easier process with the addition of the ability to duplicate steps
- Note - this only applies to visual steps (popup and regular steps)