[p2pu-dev] P2PU Learn landing page

[Alison Cole]

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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