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It's been slow on this blog lately because we have been busy meeting with so many of you in person. Mark, Alex and Nathan have been here at CERN all week and we have had a lot of really great meetings with people from across the CERN community to discuss the latest prototypes.
All this feedback and the great new ideas you have given us will lead to lots of work on the next prototype iterations. Here is a cursory roundup of some of the things that came up, in no particular order:
- We are going to further develop the idea of live events and status data on the home page - this seems to work for most of you. We have involved some of the non-LHC experiments in these discussions and look forward to broader involvement in this.
- We need to explore other states for the home page - such as when there are no live events to show, or we have a really big story to tell.
- People really like the dashboard metaphor and would love to try out a more complete version. "When can we get this?" was a common sentiment, which was encouraging.
- The 'Science community' page - or 'Physics professionals' page as it was known before - needs a lot more work. It's an aggregation area at the moment and we feel based on feedback that this could offer a lot more value. Integrating CERN Courier content and having operational status data curated for scientists were ideas that came up.
- The labelling for the main navigational elements needs work.
- The website directory functionality of the current users' page needs to be more transparently available via the dashboard.
- The editorial processes behind updates - especially those that appear on the home page - needs more thought. Updates may run in different 'status' cycles depending on whether we are in a big 'newsy' event where people are likely to monitor them closely as opposed to 'business as usual' mode.
This is just a quick wrap up of some of the things in my notes. We'll spend the next couple of days really digesting the feedback from these meetings before the next sprint begins.
Meanwhile Alex will be doing some real user testing with people here at CERN, seeing how the prototypes fare against various goals, tasks and scenarios.
Thank you to all those that took part in these meetings and gave us such valuable feedback; and as always, your comments and thoughts here on the blog are welcome - and necessary.
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