[p2pu-dev] P2PU Learn landing page

Alison Cole alison at p2pu.org
Thu Nov 17 19:14:59 UTC 2011


Great thanks, John.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 5:15 AM, John Britton <john at p2pu.org> wrote:

> There are some photos of the wireframes in the flickr pool. We split up
> into groups and made multiple wireframes for the same page. I'm working on
> condensing them into one and will post them to the list once I'm ready for
> some feedback.
> --
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>
>
>
> On Tue, Nov 15, 2011 at 8:50 PM, Alison Cole <alison at p2pu.org> wrote:
>
>> I am hoping Stian, John, *et al* can share with us their new vision for
>> the learn page. It was discussed in Berlin but there are no notes on
>> pad.p2pu.org/workshop and the working group never reported back to the
>> larger group.
>>
>> Do you guys have any outlines or wire frames for the new ideas?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 5:16 PM, zuzel.vp <zuzel.vp at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Sharing screenshot of Learn page top (schools/filters/... not added
>>> yet) --> alive at alpha.p2pu.org:8091
>>>
>>> --
>>> Thanks,
>>>    Zuzel
>>>
>>> On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 11:32 AM, Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org>
>>> wrote:
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On 11 October 2011 16:03, Arlton Lowry <arltonlowry at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> On Oct 11, 2011, at 2:57 AM, Philipp Schmidt wrote:
>>> >>
>>> >> On 10 October 2011 22:56, Arlton Lowry <arltonlowry at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The Schools blocks at the top distract from the general courses that
>>> >>> aren't associated with any School. It forces the user to scroll down
>>> to find
>>> >>> the courses.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Yeah, no matter what we do with the schools at the top of the Learn
>>> page,
>>> >>> they're going to take up a large chunk of space. And it will only
>>> continue
>>> >>> get bigger once we add more schools.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> Would be useful to know if most of our current users are looking for
>>> an
>>> >>> overview of the different Schools, if they tend to look for one
>>> specific
>>> >>> School, or if they browse the list of courses.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I think it would be helpful for the users if we had an overview page
>>> that
>>> >>> had a small summary for each school, so they didn't have to visit
>>> each
>>> >>> individual school to get an idea of what that school is about.
>>> >>
>>> >> I agree. Could link to it from the Footer rather than add to top
>>> >> navigation.
>>> >>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> We might need a separate Schools overview page, and keep the Learn
>>> page
>>> >>> focused on helping users find and filter from all the available
>>> courses /
>>> >>> groups across all the Schools.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> The reason we were moving the schools to the Learn page was to cut
>>> back
>>> >>> on the top navigation, so we only had "Learn" and "Contribute",
>>> which are
>>> >>> both action words. If we changed the top navigation to "Learn",
>>> >>> "Contribute", and "Schools" it would be awkward because "Schools" is
>>> not an
>>> >>> action word.
>>> >>
>>> >>
>>> >>>
>>> >>> What are your thoughts, Phillipp?
>>> >>
>>> >> It's tricky. Long-term I think we need to consider building out
>>> stronger
>>> >> identities for Schools within P2PU (do we want it to work like Ning,
>>> like
>>> >> tumblr, like wordpress.com etc.?)
>>> >> But short term - what about something like this:
>>> >> (1) Learn page focused on finding courses, not schools (see ->
>>> >> http://www.kickstarter.com/discover for an example)
>>> >>
>>> >> I agree - this is a more appropriate approach for the Learn page.
>>> >> Skillshare also has a great discovery page
>>> >> - http://www.skillshare.com/learn.
>>> >>
>>> >> * We list Schools as a filter option in the same way that Kickstarters
>>> >> uses "Categories". When the user clicks on the name of the School it
>>> filters
>>> >> which courses that are displayed.
>>> >>
>>> >> +1
>>> >>
>>> >> * Different from Kickstarter: We add a little text ("Go to Schools
>>> Page")
>>> >> next to the School name, which takes users away from the Learn page
>>> to the
>>> >> actual School Home Page.
>>> >>
>>> >> +1
>>> >>
>>> >> (2) Make it easier to find a particular school:
>>> >> * Add a schools block to the footer. Either keep this block on all
>>> pages
>>> >> (http://alpha.p2pu.org:8091/en/) or make the bottom section four
>>> columns
>>> >> "What is P2PU" "Our Supporters" "P2PU Schools" "Connect With Us"
>>> >>
>>> >> We are going to continue to add additional schools - correct? A block
>>> at
>>> >> the footer could get filled up fairly quickly. I could see it being a
>>> block
>>> >> that directs visitor to a P2PU Schools overview page that listed all
>>> the
>>> >> schools.
>>> >
>>> > Good point. Your suggestion makes sense.
>>> > P
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>> --
>>
>> Alison
>>
>>
>


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