Make the relationships & terminology around tutorials and lessons more clear

terichadbourne commented 5 years ago

In user testing with @meiqimichelle, it was suggested that it's not clear while you're in a lesson that you are progressing through a series of lessons that make up a workshop, and that it's not clear how workshops and lessons are defined. Suggestions for improvement included:

Using typography to make the hierarchy more clear on the lesson page, such as putting the blog name above the workshop name or changing fonts
Using a progress bar instead of just "Lesson X of Y" on the lesson page
Using the full workshop name on the lesson page so it matches the homepage, or finding a way to make the connection between the workshop shortname (eg "Blog") and the full name (eg "Blogging on the Decentralized Web") more clear
Not calling the entire website a singular "workshop" in the homepage tagline if we will then say it's made up of many workshops in the description below
Make it more obvious which things on the homepage are meant to be "workshops," perhaps by using tiles instead of a list or labelling them somehow

mikeal commented 5 years ago

Related: I find the shortname "Blog" to be generally confusing. The way it shows in your tabs makes you think that tab is a Blog you were reading :)

Also, we don't really create a blog, we build the data-structures one might use to create a blog in the future, so we could really use a better name. We don't even need to mention that the data is modeled after a blog in the title, we could just introduce that in the first lesson.

terichadbourne commented 5 years ago

Just adding a note here that "workshops" have been relabelled to "tutorials" since this issue was created.

Once #59 is merged, there will be breadcrumbs that should help a bit.

The issue of shortnames not matching full names still stands, as does the missing progress bar and the typography suggestions.

Frijol commented 5 years ago

just noticed that https://github.com/ProtoSchool/protoschool.github.io/issues/161 which I just submitted is largely a continuation of this conversation

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Make the relationships & terminology around tutorials and lessons more clear #97