[p2pu-dev] P2PU Homepage

Tue Nov 22 14:42:43 UTC 2011

Again, thanks everyone for chiming in here. As Philipp said, the community
has prioritized the home page behind a few other things for the moment but
it's good to have all this input now. When we get back to the homepage
project I'll be sure to incorporate as much of this as possible into the
next edition for community review.

Few responses to people's comments:

@Dan - A/B testing - as part of the new metrics stuff that we're
integrating collecting data for A/B tests will be very easy for us. We've
got the framework in place. It's a possibility, and I would like to use
data to drive decisions as much as possible, but I'm not sure that we have
enough volume yet for statistical significance

@Oliver & Joao - Thanks for your input beyond the homepage, I would like to
get you two to be as involved as possible in the UX process as much as you
are willing. I've sent a separate email to arrange a time to talk.

@Bekka & Jessy - Agree about the bias, I think that including some more
diverse sources would be good and de-emphasizing a bit would help.

Cheers,
John Britton
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2011/11/22 João Menezes <tonyhomes at gmail.com>

> Thank you, Philipp, great to be back in action :)
>
>
> 2011/11/17 Philipp Schmidt <philipp at p2pu.org>
>
>> Joao: Great to hear from you again and congratulations regarding the
>> degree.
>>
>> We've been speaking a lot about increasing the sense of community and
>> using color more strategically fits very well with that suggestion.
>>
>> P
>>
>> 2011/11/5 João Menezes <tonyhomes at gmail.com>
>>
>>> 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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