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Creating Views & View States

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Learn how to map your customer experience by creating views and view states in the Evolv AI Manager. See this article for more on Views and Ideation.

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Create a View

  1. Navigate to Views
  2. Click New View at the top right of the screen
  3. Give the view a unique name that reflects the page or page type it represents
  4. Upload one or more screenshots for the appropriate device.

    Screenshot Best Practices:

    The AI can find opportunities and generate ideas from partial screenshots, but uploading full screenshots provides the AI more context about your experience resulting in more opportunities.

    With a plugin: Check out these top 8 Chrome plugins to capture a full-page screenshot.
    Without a plugin: 3 Methods to Take a Full-Page Screenshot on Chrome

    Important:  Screenshots must by 4 MB or smaller.


    The screenshots uploaded when creating a new view are associated with the default view state. The default view state should represent the most common state of the view or page type:
    - Homepage without an email offer dialog
    - PDP with the Add to Cart Button enabled
    - Landing page with the first step of a lead form shown
  5. Click Save – The system will automatically begin evaluating the design, finding opportunities, and generating ideas.

Creating Additional View States

  1. Navigate to a view
  2. Click New View State from the menu next to the state label or click the + icon in the view state nav above Ideation.
  3. Give the view state a unique name that reflects the state of the page it represents
  4. Upload one or more screenshots for the appropriate device.
  5. Click Save - The system will automatically begin evaluating the design, finding opportunities, and generating ideas

Click All View States in the view state navigation to view all view states and their corresponding ideation. 

Capturing Screenshots in a browser

The AI can find opportunities and generate ideas from partial screenshots, but uploading full screenshots provides the AI more context about your experience resulting in more opportunities.

Important:  Screenshots must by 4 MB or smaller.

With a plugin: Check out these top 8 Chrome plugins to capture a full-page screenshot.
Without a plugin: 3 Methods to Take a Full-Page Screenshot on Chrome

Using design images

You can also upload mockups of. your full page designs. Be sure to export design files as PNGs or JPGs.

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