Open rebeccawilliams opened 9 years ago
The upcoming gov style guide work might be really useful for this (maybe in a month-ish).
And some other ideas...
Adding these as a reference as well:
@mollieru @juliaelman, do you two have thoughts guidance on designing for guidance? (also dashboards? https://github.com/GSA/project-open-data-dashboard)
Current sections on the website include:
Adding some notes about what I think the redesign should include:
Here's a generic layout to start with to have something to talk around. Starting with the frontpage can also help us decide the items that should be prioritized and refine the organization of the different sections
Thanks for this mock-up!
While Guidelines
are mentioned in the NAP, they don't exist apart for the Implementation Guidance right now so I wouldn't lead with them in mind.
I think the high-level categories to include right now are:
Can we see this mock up with the Handbook template? http://opendatahandbook.org/
Here are some analytics for the site over the past six months. The v1.1 schema page is by far the most accessed page, receiving over 40% of entrances compared to less than 30% for the frontpage.
And here's a drill down of traffic flow starting from those 12k (~30%) frontpage entrances
Thanks @philipashlock for the web analytics. My takeaways:
I think when refreshing the site with a homepage we should balance these goals:
This issue is to discuss how Project Open Data can be laid out as a more user-friendly playbook for all agencies, including those not currently mandated under the open data policy. A Project Open Data v 2.0, if you will, but let's not change the name.
Some inspirational options include:
opendata.guide by @mheadd (CC-BY)
The U.S. Digital Services Playbook
@melodykramer also mentioned an answering common questions approach.
What else would be helpful here?
cc @leahbannon @ErieMeyer @philipashlock
See also #450.