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STAR Voting is an upgrade to our current way of voting that allows voters to score candidates from 0 to 5. Ultimately, STAR Voting elects candidates who better represent the whole of the electorate. We are building a site that lets everyone from individuals to organizations use STAR Voting to host simple polls or run secure elections.
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Add "Sign-up" link, add "Try me" link, redesign Home Page #496

Closed masiarek closed 5 months ago

masiarek commented 8 months ago

Add "Sign-up" link - it is missing.

Add "Try me" link with a frictionless experience

As-Is We have a Quick Poll as our default "demo mode" / "try me" mode : PROS - easy and quick CONS - very limiting (unable to control ANY aspects of the Poll - stop it, change title, set end date, etc)

Do we want to have the Quick Poll feature with limited functionality and has a rigid, inflexible design so prominently visible on our home page? Proposal

Concerns / open questions: Right now - the demo mode forces users to Sign-up - but this is friction (I would not trust at first any website). Maybe we can have few test user ids that can be used for test drive (randomly assign assign a Try-me user id). Each month we refresh / reset / delete the content for all Try-me accounts (as long as we clearly communicate the behavior - it is fine - if I like what I see - I will register to keep my content)

Video: "Sign-up" and "Try me" feedback (compare other voting websites): https://youtu.be/pOkBhyDKp3c QuickPoll: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1d_p3Nknpk8-AW9axhuNfD6bxnkpWty7pYRuloHDVtKQ/edit Demo Election - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IqO6PmEi5fbq7-ZSnmiqhXi_aJoR4BgtpxIYUZCgJYI/edit Live/Test mode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PKkWRbZt5BAr44mSqjvLJSvxNne87iF2KzWe_aqEf-I/edit

ArendPeter commented 8 months ago

Interesting, we've always assumed it was a given that the quick poll would be on the front page (since that's what star.vote does), but you're right that's not necessarily a given (for example, strawpoll features "create a poll" prominently, but it doesn't have a widget directly on the front page)

Regarding the test user ids, I don't think that will be necessary. If we want to expose more features without requiring login we can just make those accessible without having a test user login.

The main feature that must require login is editing past elections, but there's many other features that could potentially be included without requiring login. We just need to have more conversation to figure out where to draw the line