[p2pu-dev] P2PU Learn landing page

Philipp Schmidt philipp at p2pu.org
Tue Oct 11 15:32:50 UTC 2011


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.

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