EDS book v0.4.0 Release notes

The issue aims to inform changes for a minor release (v0.4.0) of the EDS book website according to an UX/UI audition by Superbloom. We provide below some context, deliverables and approach to implement such changes.

Context

Superbloom, a nonprofit design and research organization, made a consultation with EDS book and Scivision projects for the period of March 1 to March 31, 2024.

The scope of the consultancy was to propose a minimal-but-complete intervention to the project websites, enabling improved UX and functionality for both, and showcasing the benefits of a unified design language for the Turing community: Scivision (https://sci.vision) and the Environmental Data Science (EDS) Book (https://edsbook.org/welcome.html). The goal is to make science research more open and contributable.

We share below the activities proposed for EDS book:

  1. Discovery Work: Given the less-known vision on Superbloom’s end, we will conduct additional discovery work to understand the main user flow and identify the primary actions users should take.
  2. Content Architecture: We will address best practices and creation flow recommendations for improved content architecture, including proposing improvements to make the Jupyter-based platform more accessible and engaging.
  3. Mockups for Content Structure: We will create mockups demonstrating the proposed content structure and present them for feedback. This will include a proposed Open Source led, user testing process.

This work was supported by EPSRC Grant EP/Y028880/1 and The Alan Turing Institute.

Deliverables

The main deliverables are listed below:

Approach

Audit

Content suggestions

We're opening individual issues to cover content suggestions and restructuring for the website

  • Landing page
  • About
  • Our notebooks
  • Contributions
  • Guidelines
  • Citation and reuse
  • How to use EDS book notebooks
  • Our Community

Mockup

Additional issue

Feedback

Abi (Superbloom)

When i read release notes i feel that it will talk about some changes you made to the website so i think it could be named 'EDS Book v0.4.0 - coming up' if it's release notes about the changes you have already made, then the title works and i would move deliverables into the context section and mention it was 'Deliverables from Superbloom'

i would add a section: 'Latest changes' and mention what was changed on the website I think the three points — discovery work, content architecture and mockups for content structure are a bit confusing because it sounds like next steps and work to be done. i think the template could have just 2-3 sections: Context - where you talk about the superbloom work Latest changes - where you talk about the work implemented from the audit (and maybe) Where you can help - where you just list some tasks that the community can help with keeping it short and simple might be fine.

Anne F

  • Avoid summer, Sept-Oct
  • Changes in a new branch
  • Create banner
  • Validate with participatns of the workshop
  • For the community, create a banner
Select a repo