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Parkology will be the open, online community to share ideas, tools, and resources for people who love quality parks within a 10-Minute Walk from home.
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Clarify scope of site #20

Open iamjessklein opened 6 years ago

iamjessklein commented 6 years ago

@garciajnatalie and I were discussing how large the site's scope is and started to brainstorm a more refined one sentence call to action.

This is what we we came up with:

Learn about your local park and find tools to help you care for it.

We have two follow up questions that we could use help with:

  1. What do you want to learn about your local park?
  2. How might you care for your local park?
iamjessklein commented 6 years ago

Here's my crack at it:

1. What do you want to learn about your local park?

2. How might you care for your local park?

iamjessklein commented 6 years ago

I know that this is a little out of left field but I sketched this very quickly last weekend after chatting with @garciajnatalie about the project scope. The idea is that a site visitor would first find their local park and then get provided will all of the materials and resources that they need to care for it. Feel free to ignore this if it's totally unrelated to the project, I just realized that I forgot to share it.

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garciajnatalie commented 6 years ago

This looks so great! I like the idea of simplifying the homepage overall, as well as the messaging. It makes the site more pointed.

I do think that you were spot on when we discussed this with having the pathways at the forefront, maybe instead of the search by location, the dropdown could include those top questions with more simplified language to make it more accessible?

iamjessklein commented 6 years ago

Actually I think that a dropdown could potentially be more limiting or confusing. Have you read (https://www.formisimo.com/blog/why-are-drop-downs-and-select-boxes-bad-for-forms/)? but I might be hung up on your use of the word dropdown. I think that you're right in that the messaging needs to be simplified and focused on the pathways. Have you ever prioritized that content?