Orienting text
emilyhobson opened this issue · 6 comments
- Copy about the Mission ( @waldoj )
- Design for placement ( @alecburch )
Proposed text:
This is Open Redistricting, a project that allows the public to participate in the state’s legislative redistricting process. Here you can review existing district maps, changes proposed to those districts, comment publicly about district boundaries and proposed changes, and make your own proposed modifications to districts.
I'm wary of including our project name in this text, but this intro is weird if it doesn't name the site. I figure it's vague enough to be acceptable, and of course the orgs that deploy this can just change the text.
I'm thinking we hit them with the orienting text on their first page visit with a modal pop-up, rather than having it live at the top of the home page or on an about page. It could also be a good opportunity to prompt them to sign in with github. Something like:
We could still add an about page with attribution and additional information if we think that's necessary.
I appreciate the desire to place this information prominently, but this pushes signing in with GitHub to an audience that will certainly not have GitHub accounts (and almost certainly won't need one for their likely interactions with the site). Perhaps instead of an overlay, it could appear in the form of a banner at the top of the page, dismissed permanently in the same manner as the overlay? That way it wouldn't require acknowledgement, in the manner of an overlay.
I was going to say the same thing about GH signin/up -- GH is just a
backend for this project and should be as transparent as possible to the
end users.
Also, the thing about an "intro" or "info" modal is that you often want to
bring it back up, which requires additional UI.
It's simple enough technically for me to make an about page, and that's
also an opportunity for orgs who deploy Open Redistricting in the future to
add additional info customized to their org.
If we want to stick with a modal (since we have no other pagination/tab
UI), can we have an "About" link (or something similar) in the header that
calls up the modal?
And finally -- maybe we can make the sign in/up UI present in the modal,
but disassociate it from GH. Something like "for the best experience, you
can sign in now", tho that needs to be thought through more.
@alecburch, we can talk about this IRL tomorrow when I'm back in the office
if that's simpler.
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I appreciate the desire to place this information prominently, but this
pushes signing in with GitHub to an audience that will certainly not have
GitHub accounts (and almost certainly won't need one for their likely
interactions with the site). Perhaps instead of an overlay, it could appear
in the form of a banner at the top of the page, dismissed permanently in
the same manner as the overlay? That way it wouldn't require
acknowledgement, in the manner of an overlay.—
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Also came up in an internal conversation that we need to indicate prominently that this is a sandbox (in its current form), not a real redistricting site.
I'm thinking now that we can present all this context in a modal like @alecburch originally suggested, and display the modal any time a user visits the site when not already logged in. The modal will reappear when you log out, and that should be enough in terms of UI to call it back up.
I still think that a signin/up UI can be there as long as it's not obviously GitHub (tho we should mention GH so that users aren't confused when they're directed to a GH auth page).
If no one has any additional feedback, I'm going to go ahead and implement this over the weekend or on Monday.