put the iteration name / title in the badge ?

[Raynos]

You can't tell which iteration https://feedopensource.com/iteration/dominictarr/feedopensource/1PTAwipYpP63uNrcxfm5FewxRdZyar6ceu.png#1.2 or https://feedopensource.com/iteration/dominictarr/feedopensource/18oBEV9hFdDMEct9Ys2bSAuEY4bi2KSMHi.png#1.2 is.

Maybe it should mention the name of the issue "Iteration 1" and "Iteration 2" in the badge ?

[dominictarr]

good idea. where should the name go? at the moment all the badge real estate is taken.

[ralphtheninja]

The name could go at the top and perhaps we could reduce the number of states it has now (created, funding, progress, complete) OR if that is not an option we could illustrate the four states graphically, rather than in text, like a traffic light with red, orange and green dots or something like that.

[dominictarr]

hmm, yeah, or have overlapping tabs that stacked so you got an impression that stuff has happened.

[Raynos]

I'm not much of a design person, I just like the idea of cramming all the information I want into a single thing I can look at. But maybe just make the image taller and put it above the created / funded / progress / completed :D

[dominictarr]

of course! brillant. it can be any size we want!

can have the path to the repo & user name too.

[joates]

it can be any size we want

while technically that is true, you probably should pick a size from the IAB Standards so that if in future people need to display a badge in a sidebar, as a tweet attachment or somewhere else on a webpage (i.e. not on github) it will just fit because it conforms to some expected standard.

Just something else to consider..

but of course this also leads into other "design" type issues, like should there be more than 1 badge option, maybe too early to "bring in" a designer to the discussion, although if there were a designer present they would probably be throwing stuff at me for saying that and yelling "it's never too early to think about design" (you know how they are :-P hahaha).

At this early stage at least i'd favor a single badge but with dimensions consistent with what is expected / standard / normal (i tend to prefer media at the 16:9 aspect ratio, but that's only because my screen has that ratio so bit of an edge-case there :D, the golden ratio is equally appropriate) or just go with mRec which is 300x250px from the IAB standards (mRec == medium rectangle).

[dominictarr]

sounds reasonable.

[dominictarr]

okay, I've put the title in the badge, and removed the list of states - so now it only shows the current state.

[dominictarr]

the nearest size to change to would be 300x100 (currently it's 300x60) but since the canvas code is still pretty procedural that change is a bit more involved, so I think that should wait untill we actually want to put a badge in a sidebar.

[dominictarr]

iteration name is now in the badge, so closing this.