vNext: user research testing
Thank you for helping with the Five-Fifths-Voter vNext!
For now the URL is not being published here. See the slack channel for the URL to the vNext preview site.
Just a quick note on the design on the "Work Together" area. There is NO DESIGN! Its meant to be functional but it is definitely not beautiful. Try to focus on the function only. If you have a design idea you can open and issue and select the "vNext - Design idea". Sebastian will be looking at an overall design but help is welcome.
Once on the site click the "Work Together" tab.
Clicking that tab will prompt you to log in.
We do not yet have an approved Facebook or Google connection so those button will only work a few times a day. You are welcome to try those but you can also click the sign up link to create an account for the site.
If all goes well you should see a screen where you can create your own team or you can join the sample team.
The sample team contains sample election information from the Google civic API. Feel free to interact with it but just remember that none of the data is real.
You can name your team anything and give any description. The path does have to be unique so if you get an error when you click Create try changing the path.
Once you create your team you will land on the badge page and hopefully you will see that you have already earned some badges.
We are definitely interested in ideas for badges. If you have an idea open and issue and select the "vNext - Badge idea"
Looks impressive right! You team is doing awesome! Oh. Never mind. Its all fake data. We do not know what to show for team status but we probably want to show something. Have ideas here? You can open an issue and select the blank template at the bottom and describe your idea. Also, please add the "vNext" label to your issue.
This is heart of it all. But your team election page is probably blank. Start by clicking "Add election"
If you are lucky, Google civic API know something about your election and you can pick that from the list. If you are unlucky, then start by downloading your sample ballot from your state elections office. That's what I did.
Once you have an election added you will see it on your page.
If you added an election from the Google list, you can try to import more information using the import button. If you created your own election, just select it and add your own information.
Click "Add contest" to get started.
I used my sample ballot and google to fill in as much information as I could.
Add all the contests and candidates that you want to your team.
Once you have a list of contests and candidates you can do your research and make notes with the tags feature.
You tags are NOT saved to the cloud. They are saved to your local browser only. No one can see your tags unles you share them with someone on your team.
Invite people to your team with their email address. You can set them as a regular user, or an editor (so they can edit election details), or as an admin (so they can edit and also invite new people).
If you click on the "heart" icon on the election page you can find your selection on the My List tab.
You selection in "My List" are NOT saved to the cloud. They are saved to your local browser only.
You can generate a code to share your list & tags with someone on your team.
Copy the code and send it to anyone. The person with the code can just apply it to see your list & tags. In this case your list and tags IS SAVED TO THE CLOUD however your personal information is not saved. So in this case L5Fxc is the code used to share the list & tags but nothing we store in the cloud identifies L5Fxc as being your code.
You can post to the slack channel or use on the the vNext templates to open and issue
The code for these new features is on the vNext branch. If you want to contribute code you will need to start a branch from vNext.