Create a plan for community workshop

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Create a plan for community workshop #3601

Closed CharlotteDowns closed 8 months ago

CharlotteDowns commented 8 months ago

What

A draft agenda and plan for a 90 min workshop with the community.

Why

To engage our community and form a steering group to help with our work on a navigation contribution.

Done when

[x] 90 mins is broken down into a icebreaker, presentation and two breakout tasks – the agenda is written
[x] Objectives of what we want to achieve from the session are written
[x] A space/tool for the community to share notes and screenshots is decided on
[x] Check that the space/tool can be accessed by our community
[x] Prepare the tool to help our community members take part
[x] Share agenda in workshop invite

mia-allers-gds commented 8 months ago

Questions for the community document

domoscargin commented 8 months ago

Potential off-the-top-of-my-head ideas for workshop activities:

Some kind of card sorting exercise. We give folks generic content that might get linked to from various bits of the navigation, and they sort that content into groups and label them.
Giving users a big ol' collection of items that might appear in navigation ("GOV.UK logo", "Service logo", "Menu", "Search Bar", "Page title/link", "sign in button", "sign out button", etc) and get them to group and order in terms of importance.
"What's missing?": present users with a really basic example of a navigation (how basic?), ask them to jot down what's missing that they need.

If we present participants with some kind of proto-design, we may need to present them several rather than a single one. They can indicate preference, pick things from one that are missing from another, etc.

mia-allers-gds commented 8 months ago

https://github.com/alphagov/govuk-design-system/issues/3602#issuecomment-1971287509

We are interested in figuring out whether it would be useful to iterate how the GOV.UK brand/ logo is presented on service and product domains (the current branding is very prominent, could we scale it back?)

For the second Q, it might be good to get some GOV.UK designers into the workshop as they have a view on how the branding will change in the coming months

CharlotteDowns commented 8 months ago

Space/tool for workshop will be a combination of this Google Doc (for the warmer and Exercise 1) and this Padlet board (for Exercise 2).

CharlotteDowns commented 8 months ago

We should use a version of this retro board for consistency with previous events.