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title: Design Sprint 19/10/2021

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# Design Sprint 19/10/2021

## Attendees

* Georgia Aitkenhead/The Alan Turing Institute/GeorgiaHCA
* Soledad Li/Intern at AutSPACEs
* Sophia Batchelor/PhD Student University of Leeds
* Susanna Fantoni
* Isla Staden 
* Robin Taylor
* James Kim
* Ying Li
* Anoushka Ramesh 

## Links

* [Design Milestone](https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/AutSPACEs/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+milestone%3A%226.+Design+for+MVP%22)
* [Accessibility Milestone](https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/AutSPACEs/milestone/5)
* [Issue for the collation of community recommendations for design](https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/AutisticaCitizenScience/issues/560)

## Actions to take

* Identify pain points on existing platform: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/AutSPACEs/issues/177
* Determine architecture and design decisioins so it is consitent across platform: https://github.com/alan-turing-institute/AutSPACEs/issues/178


# Outcomes 
- tasks and issues for what needs to be done 
- priority on design consistency 
- clean and consistent design 
- that can be user tested 
    - [name=Sophia] user testing ahould at least be done with A/B principles 

#### User Experience/User Flow
- Navigation 
- Layout
- Features 

#### User Research
- Existing feedback from users 
    - Create a tailored design 

### Notes
- What needs to happen to Milestone (Project management)
- Create rules for a design system for consistency 
- User testing/research and what we need to incorporate 
- Project management: GitHub, milestones, issues, and documentation 
- Wireframes for A/B testing
- We can firstly define the design system rules and then break into two groups, one of which can work up the design system more and the other group can work more on user recommendations integration 
- Decide if we want to use GDS design principles or not?
- Decide which version of Bootstrap we want to use
- Identify pain points as a good place to start
- Put up a design call?   
- Put up alternate views of design - https://www.stuffthatworks.health; 
- Think about the user flow?
- Colours and fonts are important but orthogonal to general feel of site: present so this is not the main focus of user testing
- We want it to feel like a community 
- We want people to feel welcome;

New features (Milestone 7)
- New feature: include an explanatory video on the homepage
- Put 'researchers' on list for moderation
- Make search available for the whole website?
- Include tags on explore experiences page?
- could we also add to the "ideas for future" introducing functionality to filter by date or filter by autism connection 
- Ability to ask for a second opinion?/refer story to another moderator 
- Ability to contact person who has submitted an experience
- If a post is declined, automated message saying declined because it goes against the code of conduct, and refers user to code of conduct

## Architecture 
- responsive web 
- tooling (bootstrap vs alternatives)
:::success
We'll use bootstrap for the frontend
:::

## Design System
- typography
- whitespace 
- logo
- colour palettes 
    - [Website for color testing](https://material.io/resources/color/#!/?view.left=0&view.right=1&primary.color=427a2f&secondary.color=e8db3c)
    - Primary Colors
        - different themes? (users/moderators)
    - Secondary Colors
- Components
	- styles of form entry
	- buttons/radios etc.
- layout of each page
    - landing page
- navigation
- copy for site

## Project Management
- Align the issues and milestones

## Change list
- what of the UX do we need to change to make it more friendly? 
- need to go through user stories and user flows 

Actions
- create 3 wireframes 
- create pallette 
- create user flows 

List of Questions and things to research more
Identify pain points 

## Suggestions
- [name=Soledad] [Color Scheme Suggestion 1](https://material.io/resources/color/#!/?view.left=0&view.right=1&primary.color=427a2f&secondary.color=e8db3b)


