VegSpec Design Review 6.18

Owned by Shannon Mitchell
Jun 18, 2024
2 min read

Attendees: Heather, Rick, John, Karl, Lori, Marguerite, Shannon

Shannon Demoed the different options for the designs, & Rick demos the live site.

Changes to note include:

  • The home page text is split into multiple blocks so it can be seen without scrolling

  • On the map you can import a shape file for your field

  • Identification is now split into its own screen

    • Lori - Could we rename Identification to “site information” or something else?

    • The information for the site info is helpful to print out & take to their land order. Maybe this would fall closer to the output?

    • Rick & Heather Suggest removing that screen since its confirmed at the end

  • On growth requirements, information now hides once you select something

    • Shannon asked whether it makes sense to break up the info into a few pages?

    • Since the info is related we should keep it on one page

  • Goals: Different options hide when they’re selected.

    • Lori - Maybe we should still show hidden options on the left

    • Rick - That might be tricky on mobile

    • Lori - Agreed!

    • Shannon - We can explore some options for this

  • Rick - We had discussed adding descriptions for different practices, if the team can send that I can add those in

  • Species List:

    • Rick: The filters are now pre-collapsed

    • the details are all hidden until you click in

    • The options are now right justified and styled differently so its easier to read the list

    • The sorts are now in the sidebar

    • When we’re on mobile it’ll be hard to fit the sidebar

    • Shannon - we can consider this as part of the design

    • Karl - have we done some review on 508 compliance?

      • Shannon - We haven’t discussed this but we’ve been doing some basic checks. We can keep compliance in mind as part of our design. We can cover some with the look and feel

    • Karl - How many species fit?

      • Rick - there’s not a hard limit, but we currently are fitting 368.

    • Heather - On the selection for land type and conservation practice - we should see what users prefer

    • Karl - As we get the regional facilitators together, it’ll be fun to get into that and listen into calls. We’d like them to work together (3-4 per region)

    • Heather - There was confusion with the facilitators about what are the next steps, the logistics.

      • Shannon - we will follow up with specific actions. It’d be helpful to email and let people know what to expect since they were confused on next steps/ action items.

      • More communication will be better, especially since everyone’s quite busy.

    • Lori and Rick will meet soon to get refreshed on what content Lori owes Rick, and break down those needs. They’ll meet Friday.