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Rethink the way that we're framing the project for first time users #228

Open pamela-drouin opened 7 years ago

iamjessklein commented 6 years ago

I've been thinking about this a bit. Based on some of the real world usability testing that I've done, I've noticed:

  1. Process is essential for orientation
  2. Project-members (designers, engineers, pms, clients) look at the site and often collect methods to share and use with their team. This is done by cutting and pasting links into (often) google docs.
  3. Website visitors want to browse the different methods with more ease.

To address these three concerns, I recommend:

I started to draft some mockups of the filtering and collect functionality:

screen shot 2018-03-01 at 4 02 10 pm screen shot 2018-03-01 at 4 02 21 pm

cc/ @toolness @pamela-drouin @dmichl