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Improve frontend-design of participatory texts
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
The use of participatory texts is currently not intuitively understandable for participants (necessitiy of mouse-over to see options to interact is confusing for some). UI-Features that increase the motivation to contribute and interact immediately after accessing the participatory texts site are missing.
Describe the solution you'd like
We want to improve the frontend UID as suggested in the following figma: https://www.figma.com/proto/KHwovctNW44WbnVmGWyLin/decidim-%2F-textarbeit-improvements?node-id=225%3A1849&scaling=min-zoom&page-id=225%3A552 (interactive)
- By making the possible tasks visible on first level we want to increase the clarity of the platform, in order to make participation easier.
- By showing comments/activities/avatars of other participants, we want to increase their motivation to contribute and to interact.
Describe alternatives you've considered Of course various reflections until we came to this proposal, but nothing worth mentioning. Except of one small feature, that we still consider: Showing avatars of participants on first level next to paragraph (up to a certain amount) could give some good first impression of ongoing interaction.
Additional context
- Status Quo to compare: https://text.decidim-austria.org/processes/textarbeit/f/12/ (in german)
- We are planning to improve backend (import of texts) as well - will keep you posted as soon as we do have concrete suggestions.
Does this issue could impact on users private data?
No.
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netidee - https://www.netidee.at/ (Foundation that funds open source projects in Austria.)
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This proposal is affected by the redesign process and will be used as feedback for the design team.
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Conversation with Pauline Bessoles
Hi Romy! Thanks for this proposal, I totally agree that participatory texts are a really cool feature and that we should enhance its UI!
I really like your mockup, but I'm wondering where the proposal title should be displayed in the global text (as the participatory text feature is based on proposals). And do you imagine a redesign of the comments section in the page of the proposals and amendments? I like it but may be it should be the object of a different proposal.
PS: The link in the Additional context section is broken :D
Hi Pauline! Thanks for your feedback and the good question about the title.
Currently we aim to hide it, because it has no function in a running text. Do you see a purpose for the title, that we didn't consider so far? We didn't plan to change the comments section yet, in order to keep decidim uniform. In the amendments, we would have to hide the title as well.
Thank you for your reply!
I agree, titles can be quite confusing for everyone (including admins when they configure the participatory text).
Actually, I think this feature should really be associated with improvements on the participatory texts administration, as @Ariadna_VA suggested in her proposal Improvements for the participatory texts module
But the UI is a good start!
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