mvexel
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1 year ago We chatted about this yesterday and started generating some ideas. I'm paraphrasing / summarizing from the discussion:
- We should allow for discovery of interesting tasks right from the homepage in a compelling way
- The design as a whole is now 4 years old, time to revisit as a whole? @ryanscherler @jschwarz2030 will talk to scope this
- Challenge discovery generally is still tricky
- It's unclear what the map on the "find" page is for until you zoom in far enough to see individual tasks
- We're serving two distinct discovery paths:
- Mappers who want to contribute something that matches their skills and interest, no matter where in the world
- Mappers who want to improve the map in a specific area, where topic is secondary or may not even matter at all
- We don't distinguish between "global" and localized challenges. Should these be completely different types both on the creation and on the discovery side? To be decided. Old ticket: #251
Some inspiration to be drawn from HOT Tasking Manager, kiva.org and even zillow.com !
For the 2023 roadmap, I would like to propose we take another look at the MapRoulette home page / landing page. I would like for us to revisit what we want to communicate when people first go to maproulette.org, which personas we can identify and how to satisfy their needs for information.
I am just stubbing this topic for the moment. I think a good way to start may be to get some folks together for a ideation session.