[p2pu-dev] Make it easier to go to your own courses

[Jessy Kate Schingler]

i think these are really good observations and agree.

it sounds like you are basically proposing a redesign of the
dashboard/homepage for logged in users, is that accurate?

is that something already on the table and/or stian would you be willing to
visually mock up your intuitive assessment of what you would want it to
look like? (even just roughly with a pen and paper, just to channel your
observations into a layout proposal?)

as a simple starting point that would be a big improvement (a "50%
step<http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/05/29/mud-minimum-usable-design/>"),
i could imagine using a layout similar to (so we could re-use the template
for) the learn/ page, but where the big course boxes displayed, are the
courses you are participating in (sorted by most recent activity), followed
by the courses you are following.

thoughts?
jessy


On Sat, Jun 9, 2012 at 6:07 AM, Jos Flores <josmasflores at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hey guys,
>
> it is a pain to go into a course indeed! I follow exactly the same
> process, but can think that for a new member it has to be hard to find
> stuff.
>
> The mailing headers were fixed about a week ago but I guess they are
> not in production yet.
>
> Another thing that just bit me is re-ordering tasks. Just had to
> "click on arrow + wait for page to load" 15 times to bring up to the
> top the new task in the homestead group :S
>
> And the last one, threading in tasks is not optimal. The homestead is
> getting some action lately and it's really hard going to keep up.
> Email integration would be a big win... is that discussion still
> going?
>
> cheers,
> José
>
>
> On 9 June 2012 04:24, Stian Håklev <shaklev at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Cross-posting from the HCI course on P2PU (I've been following the
> Coursera
> > HCI course, where they talk about user studies, paper prototyping,
> > talk-aloud etc):
> >
> > I think it would be really interesting to do some user studies of
> P2PU.org.
> > One thing that drives me crazy is that it's so cumbersome to actually
> get to
> > the different course pages, unless you bookmark them. If I go to
> p2pu.org,
> > being already logged in, there is absolutely nothing interesting on the
> > frontpage. I have to hover over my user name, and click Dashboard. Then
> > there are tons of really useless status updates (all of which I have
> > received in the mail - with actual content, already), and I have to go
> all
> > the way down to find a collection of tiny tiny icons, signifying all
> courses
> > I've signed up for, including several that I haven't been active in for
> > months and months (but who bothers to actively withdraw from a course),
> to
> > find the link to the two courses I'm actually active in - this one, and
> the
> > Researcher Homestead one...
> >
> > (Of course I can click on a link from an email announcement, but still,
> this
> > seems like something obvious that would be discovered by studying how
> people
> > actually approach P2PU.org?)
> >
> > --
> >
> >
> > and by the way, would it be possible to fix the email notification
> subject
> > lines, right now it looks like: [The Researchers' Hom]
> >
> > I know you probably have long lists of feature requests etc, but this
> seems
> > like something that would be easy to fix, and when you get 10 messages
> like
> > this every day it's really glaring and jarring.
> >
> > Stian
> > --
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> >
> >
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Jessy
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