Free Reading Functionality

This project improved an existing feature that allows El Confidencial’s subscribers to share up to 10 premium articles per month with non‑subscribers. The goal was to make the process clearer, more interactive, and easier to manage directly from the article view.

Product Design UX/UI Design Interaction Design
Client:
El Confidencial
Area:
Subscriber Experience / Product Growth
Date:
2024
Free Reading Functionality — hero screen

The Objective

Subscribers already had the ability to share articles, but the process lacked clarity and feedback. We aimed to redesign the flow to make users aware of their available shares and to limit usage in a transparent and intuitive way.

Visual Feedback and Counters

We added a visual counter showing how many share attempts remained. Each time a user shared an article, the counter updated dynamically — decreasing by one and visually confirming the interaction. When the limit was reached, the UI displayed a “no shares remaining” state, clearly signaling that the quota had been used.

Visual counter showing remaining shares
Tooltip reminding users they can share up to 10 articles

Feature Discovery Tooltip

To increase feature visibility, we designed a small informative bubble (toast) that appears within the article interface. This notification reminds subscribers they can share up to 10 exclusive articles per month — encouraging feature discovery and engagement.

Outcome

The redesign made the free‑sharing feature more intuitive and transparent. By clarifying limits and enhancing feedback, subscribers engaged more with the tool — using a benefit they often didn’t know existed before.

Final redesigned free-sharing interface
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