[UX][P1] One-click shared listening and wallet-later onboarding

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Goal

Make Dotify deliver social value before asking users to understand wallets, contracts, chains, or storage.

Product principle

A shared link should become sound and human presence before it becomes a Web3 lesson:

open link → choose/confirm a name → hear the room → react/connect → support or claim identity when useful

Scope

• Simplify Home to three layers: Live now, Rooms, and Discover.
• Choose one primary catalog representation; avoid rendering both a full Stage Rail and a full duplicate grid above the fold.
• Open the player immediately on track intent, using aura/placeholder data before remote media is ready.
• Replace silent spinners with semantic states: opening, checking access, loading first bars, joining, connecting audio, live.
• Preserve guest room access without wallet friction.
• Present blockchain actions in human terms: Support artist, Human pass, Transparent split, Publish release.
• Show the real royalty split before payment and a calm confirmation after support.
• Replace the single global transaction toast with an operation queue capable of concurrent upload, transaction, key, and room states.
• Add accessibility, reduced-motion, keyboard, mobile thumb-zone, and dual Host/browser permission handling.
• Add funnel analytics that respect privacy.

North-star metrics

• Value-before-wallet rate.
• Room-link open → first sound completion.
• Time to first sound.
• Shared listening minutes.
• Repeat host and repeat listener rate.
• Room → artist support conversion.
• Unique artist-listener connections created.

Acceptance criteria

• A guest can join and hear a public room without wallet or blockchain vocabulary.
• The first useful action is visually dominant on mobile and desktop.
• No loading state is silent or technically worded.
• Wallet/signature prompts appear only when the user initiates an action that needs them.
• The philosophy is embodied by the flow, not explained by several instructional panels.