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[João Menezes]

Hey there everyone, [?]
Sorry for my absence lately, I'm about to get my degree this month and I've
been rushing with it for some time now.

Great to see evolution with P2PU Design-related topics. I remember
commenting something about P2PU branding in the past, and I see we can
explore it a bit more. As participating in P2PU is something cool and fun,
there could be more spots of color in it. I'm not saying color must replace
the minimalist interface we currently have neither get in the way of any
elements. As color is an emotional/subjective resource, it has the ability
to make P2PU unique.

Here are some references I took from Abduzeedo.com that explore both
simplistic and colorful interface elements (being them banners, photos,
icons, headliners, etc):

https://booki.sh/
http://wearepandr.com/
http://10k.aneventapart.com/
http://virb.com/
http://pinpointsocial.com/
http://columnfivemedia.com/
http://duet.me/
http://foodsense.is/

Again, I'm not saying the website must be the antique collection of
colorful boxes we had last year. I just feel it connects better with the
spirit of P2PU being more emotional and not so systemic.

Keep it up!
João


PS: Heard there are some P2PU sessions at Mozilla Festival this year - way
to go! :)


2011/11/3 Alison Cole <alison at p2pu.org>

> A few points. There's a few too may threads to interject them in between
> the lines.
>
> Overall this looks great!
>
> I like the infographic that tells the story of "how it works". Perhaps the
> "recognition" button should have a badge icon instead of a graduation cap?
>
> I have issues with the "as featured in"  stream of publications that have
> featured us. Most pubs have mentioned us in passing in articles that focus
> on the bigger picture of education and haven't actually directly endorsed
> our mission anyhow.
>
> A visitor should get a strong sense of a DIY community upon first glance
> of P2PU. This is way more important and, like Jessy, I feel it's missing
> from the front page. I'd rather see a brief showcase of people and courses.
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Dan Diebolt <dandiebolt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> >What needs to be changed? What needs to be removed?
>>
>> Read till end.
>>
>> There was an interesting post on Reddit today from an intern at the Khan
>> Academy on the subject of using "*Machine Learning to Assess Student
>> Mastery*". While repetition and testing is not the paradigm P2PU uses,
>> it is interesting to see the level of mathematics (logistic regression)
>> being applied to assess student proficiency at Khan. In the results section
>> of the post, A/B testing was mentioned as being used to evaluate different
>> math models for calculating learner proficiency. This apparently isn't the
>> only area where A/B testing is used at Khan to drive decisions.
>>
>> To put A/B testing in perspective of web site design decisions, check out
>> three slides in this presentation starting on slide 7 where two different
>> registration forms are presented:
>>
>> http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/3296257?startSlide=7
>>
>> Well apparently Ben Kamens - lead dev at Khan - is using a A/B testing
>> framework at Khan:
>>
>> https://github.com/kamens/gae_bingo
>>
>> This framework makes it dead simple to inject alternatives into the Khan
>> platform and to automatically collect data from a sample of users
>> concerning which alternative has the better outcome or metric.
>>
>> This framework runs seamlessly on Google's App Engine (Khan runs on App
>> Engine) but is allegedly framework agnostic (works with webapp, Django,
>> Flask, whatever).
>>
>> So to comment on the original question "*What needs to be changed? What
>> needs to be removed?*" it would be very interesting and cutting edge to
>> answer some of these questions based on live A/B testing of the P2PU
>> platform.
>>
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