Habit Tiles

Leveraging personalization to make content discovery across The Washington Post mobile apps easier and more seamless for readers.

Role

Technical Project Manager

Year

2024

Goals

Enagagement

Making it easier for readers to find what interests them to drive engagement across the board. Focusing on KPIs of AAD and WRR.

Retention

Allowing The Post to capture and more easily retain reader attention and activity across its mobile app footprint.

Habits

Cementing Habit Tiles as the top-most feature across both iOS and Android to more seamlessly enable readers to discover the breadth of The Washington Post.

Results

Weekly return rate

Increased by +5.4%.

Average active days

Increased by +0.2% to 3.9%.

Stickiness

Readers described the tiles as helpful “shortcuts” providing easy access to their favorite Washington Post content.

My Takeaways

This project was a fun and very cross-functional one where I was able to flex my communication prowess, prioritization methods, and strategic alignment skills.

Based on quantitative results and qualitative reader feedback, it is clear that my team’s introduction of Habit Tiles caught readers’ attention. They better enabled readers to reach the content they wanted.