At the moment the homepage will do the following things:
give you a little bit of info about the docs.plus project
give you the option to open a blank document or a named document
give you the option to login
If you are logged in, select a document you've contributed to in the past
My proposal is that instead of having a homepage, when the user goes to the URL docs.plus they should just be shown a new, blank document with a random URL. To see an example of this UX, take a look at https://docs.new, which opens a new blank google doc.
I think this is a good idea for a few reasons:
it will give the user immediate experience of the product without having to explain it, they don't have to make a decision if they want to try it out
the basic features of the product are intuitive, we can just show it (it's a notepad), and then they can just get started immediately
all of the key features (new doc, open doc, login) will be accessible from the document view anyway
we don't have to design and maintain a homepage
If in the future we want to have an enterprise product then we can have a homepage with features and pricing, but right now this seems much easier, better and less work!
At the moment the homepage will do the following things:
My proposal is that instead of having a homepage, when the user goes to the URL docs.plus they should just be shown a new, blank document with a random URL. To see an example of this UX, take a look at https://docs.new, which opens a new blank google doc.
I think this is a good idea for a few reasons:
If in the future we want to have an enterprise product then we can have a homepage with features and pricing, but right now this seems much easier, better and less work!