YAS / IMPLEMENTATION CAPABILITY

Choose the surface that removesa specific context switch.

An extension or native app is useful when a repeated action happens inside another platform or needs device, offline, camera, notification, or local-context capability.

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When this capability is useful

  • The repeated action happens inside a third-party browser interface.
  • The workflow needs camera, notifications, offline, or device integration.
  • A platform extension can remove a costly context switch.

What must be designed

  • Surface decision: browser, web, mobile, desktop, or platform extension.
  • Minimum permission and data-boundary map.
  • Distribution and release-channel plan.

Decision artifacts

Choose the surface after the operating model.

  1. 01

    Surface decision matrix.

  2. 02

    Permission map.

  3. 03

    Release-channel plan.

Browser extension connected to a product workflow

When not to use it

  • Do not use platform logos as a substitute for a use case.
  • Do not ask for broad permissions ‘for later’.
  • Do not promise store approval.

Related decision path

Customer and product systems

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What are you trying to make work?

Bring the workflow, the bottleneck or the product idea. We can start with what exists and define the next useful version.

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