2009/9/16 Martin Albisetti <[email protected]>: > Hello fellow Launchpadians, > > The end of our 3.0 cycle is approaching, and one of the bug pieces > missing from the puzzle is a home page refresh. > I've taken a few hours to sketch out something we can work on, and > split it into 2, one for logged in users, and one for the ones who > aren't. I think we want to take the approach more and more, where > logged in users see something different, as they usually have > different needs. > I'm on leave until next week, so I've also uploaded[1] the balsamiq[2] > source files so anyone can tinker with them as the discussion goes on. > Once I start work again full speed on Monday, I will be sprinting for > 2 weeks, so it's unlikely I will be able to HTMLize this, so I'll need > a volunteer to do so and land the branch :)
I think splitting it into logged in vs not as a very promising approach, and you've avoided a trap I probably would have fallen into, which is to assume that 'logged in' == 'experienced user', when in fact many people logged in will still need some guidance as to how to get started, play or learn new features. There is a question of whether the main user dashboard should be at l.n/ or l.n/~mbp or l.n/~mbp/dashboard. Or arguably the home page should redirect to something explicitly named after my dashboard, which is what I think rememberthemilk does. It may be useful to let other people have a url by which they can see a privacy-filtered version of my dashboard. Both of them look more clean and fresh than the current page. I like the prominence of blog posts and their apparent replacement of non-blog news items. (Oh, apparently that's already happened.) On first reading this I thought "oh, Launchpad's getting per-user blogs? how cool". So maybe it should be labeled "Launchpad news". If it's going to be per-user I really think it needs a bit more about me: my bugs (subscribed/assigned), merge proposals, and projects. I think it should be most-recent-first for these, and it needs a lot of care to cope with people involved with hundreds of bugs, projects or teams. As a start, almost a placeholder, it would be good to at least give just links to those common destinations, even if you don't say any more about them. -- Martin <http://launchpad.net/~mbp/> _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
