The problem is at three levels - conceptual, navigational and linguistic.
On the conceptual side, the three icons at the top suggest that there are three categories of information being shared - ideas, challenges and projects. But it is not clear how these are related conceptually, nor from a UI perspective. The text on the home page gives only a vague idea of what the relationship might be. It seems that challenges generate projects. But what about ideas? Anyway, most 'challenges' do not state a clear challenge. Many projects are not projects at all, but clubs or other activities. I have yet to find a "related idea" under either a challenge or a project, so it seems Ideas are in practice a separate category. Yet many of them seem to be project proposals, similar to those in Projects. A 'how-to' page or dropdown would be very helpful.
For navigation, the search bar is confusing. Is it a drop-down or a fill-out? How is clicking one of the icons idea, challenge or project, supposed to affect the search? What are the plus signs between the icons and the search bar supposed to imply? Is the search only on tags or on all words? Once I type a word in and enter it, it affects the drop-down choice on the next word typed in. This needs more thought, and more testing!
Linguistically, improvements are needed in the explanation texts on the landing page. In fact, I would suggest moving these to a separate place, so that the explanations are separate from the examples in the slide show.
Ideaweave is a platform for exchanging ideas and forming groups around exciting projects and solve problems.(was not in the right tense, anyway)Below is a suggestion for the sub-tagline
Organizations or individuals post challenges. , which are like competitions, and People suggest projects that meet tackle the challenges. Anyone can follow and join a project to help develop it, and add their own ideas to the project.
Need to explain what people get out of it. If this site aims to be a social network in which people share valuable ideas, it should have a clearly defined social contract.
This next statement needs some more explanation, so that it connects with the challenges.You Would you like to showcase your project to a growing public in order to find supporters collaborators, get advice and ideas? from experts or simply call for help an test if you are communicating comprehensively?
Ideaweaves provides you with a dedicated space and feedback tools that are easy to use.
This next statement refers to things that are not mentioned elsewhere - I see no task manager, resource schedule or obvious discussion forum, unless what is meant is the Etherpad in the workspace.
IdeaWeave provides a simple collaborative working environment, the possibility to organise and archive discussions, a clear visibility on the tasks to be performed and the resources needed.
Either update this statement to reflect reality ("Ideaweave provides an etherpad function for online discussion and a place to store links and documents"), or remove it.
The problem is at three levels - conceptual, navigational and linguistic.
On the conceptual side, the three icons at the top suggest that there are three categories of information being shared - ideas, challenges and projects. But it is not clear how these are related conceptually, nor from a UI perspective. The text on the home page gives only a vague idea of what the relationship might be. It seems that challenges generate projects. But what about ideas? Anyway, most 'challenges' do not state a clear challenge. Many projects are not projects at all, but clubs or other activities. I have yet to find a "related idea" under either a challenge or a project, so it seems Ideas are in practice a separate category. Yet many of them seem to be project proposals, similar to those in Projects. A 'how-to' page or dropdown would be very helpful.
For navigation, the search bar is confusing. Is it a drop-down or a fill-out? How is clicking one of the icons idea, challenge or project, supposed to affect the search? What are the plus signs between the icons and the search bar supposed to imply? Is the search only on tags or on all words? Once I type a word in and enter it, it affects the drop-down choice on the next word typed in. This needs more thought, and more testing!
Linguistically, improvements are needed in the explanation texts on the landing page. In fact, I would suggest moving these to a separate place, so that the explanations are separate from the examples in the slide show.
Ideaweave is a platform for exchanging ideas and forming groups around exciting projects
and solve problems.(was not in the right tense, anyway) Below is a suggestion for the sub-tagline Organizations or individuals post challenges., which are like competitions, andPeople suggest projects thatmeettackle the challenges. Anyone canfollow andjoin a project to help develop it, and add their own ideas to the project. Need to explain what people get out of it. If this site aims to be a social network in which people share valuable ideas, it should have a clearly defined social contract.This next statement needs some more explanation, so that it connects with the challenges.
YouWould you like to showcase your projectto a growing public in orderto findsupporterscollaborators, get advice and ideas?from experts or simply call for help an test if you are communicating comprehensively? Ideaweavesprovides you with a dedicated space and feedback tools that are easy to use.This next statement refers to things that are not mentioned elsewhere - I see no task manager, resource schedule or obvious discussion forum, unless what is meant is the Etherpad in the workspace. IdeaWeave provides a simple collaborative working environment, the possibility to organise and archive discussions, a clear visibility on the tasks to be performed and the resources needed. Either update this statement to reflect reality ("Ideaweave provides an etherpad function for online discussion and a place to store links and documents"), or remove it.