UX Feedback
Queue a very large copy paste:
Actual survey link
https://atunitcat.wufoo.com/forms/funding-needs-survey/
Survey results
Asks someone for access to the survey results. For obvious reasons those are not public.
Attempt at making it all make sense:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ODcj4SoDR_tkUVOKGNZu6_VZKUOBbrPdBainUtQ_ots/edit?usp=sharing
@simonv3's take-aways:
- Most survey responders are looking to donate funds (17)
- Most people use paypal largely for its wide-spreadedness.
- People like the connection you have with donators in Patreon, Kickstarter, IndieGogo, GoFundMe.
- Anonymity of donors in Gittip is a big plus for it. Psuedonymity would be great.
- No limits on what can be funded or get funding is great.
- People are either overpaid and looking to donate, or insecure, and donate when they can.
- Several people are a fan of quickly getting started with whatever site. Minimum barrier of entry.
- Very few people are a part of groups.
- Most people use Twitter, but I think the list given was not extensive enough to be useful.
@duckinator's take-aways:
- We should prioritize recurring donations (weekly and monthly) at the start.
- A simple sign-up flow is of utmost priority.
- Anonymity of givers.
- Givers pay fees.
- We probably want to enforce smaller donations for the repeating ones, similarly to how Gittip does (iirc their limit is you can only give $100/week to each person).
- Well-thought-out transparency (my article is relevant!)
- For as long as we don't have one-time donations, we should allow a simple way to link to a bunch of external services, like Gittip does.
- Requiring people's legal names be displayed is bullshit, regardless of if we need to know their legal name. I'm looking at you, PayPal and Dwolla.
- Ability to send messages to donors -- there's a lot of details I'm thinking about for this, I'll leave a comment about it in a bit.
Some things that were talked about afterwards:
Something like twitter cards:
One of the things that I took away from it is that people don't have a hard time discovering things to give money to, but they do feel like they have a hard time sharing their stuff. Disclaimer: I see this more as a long term goal.
This is not fully worked out yet in my head. What if we focused on making it super easy to embed donate or give buttons in other sites? And not just a link, but an actual representation of a person's work. Say, for example your article @duckinator, what if you were able to include at the bottom the work of relevant activists that people could donate to? And when it was published you could just link them (say this is a wordpress plug in), and then it would create an iframe (or some other devilry) and display them beautifully?
So instead of focusing on having a site that works (but have a kick-ass site that works for sign ups etc) you focus on a site that makes it really easy to share the work you do, and let other people advertise it as well.
Like I said, rough thoughts, I mainly just wanted to get them down for other people to think about as well.
so I see a few things that could be useful based on what you just said:
- The standard widget approach, explaining how close someone is to reaching some funding target.
- A widget that advertises a person's work alongside the link to donate.
- A widget that advertises work of people you like.
Is 3 basically what you were going for? It'd be tricky (e.g., some people who I agree with overall have made problematic articles I wouldn't want to promote, and we need to somehow handle this), but I think it is definitely worth looking into later on. There's also the thing that we want it to be opt-in. E.g., you have a say in whether or not you can be included in any given list, as well as to the feature overall.
I love that idea and also it sounds almost exactly like twitter cards ---> https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards
Yeah, it would be a tricky thing to figure out. I think that for that reason it should also not be something we include now, but give a lot of thought to actually develop and design, before we even start building something like it.
Twitter, Google+, and Facebook will all fall back to Open Graph data: http://ogp.me/
So it'd likely be more worthwhile to, if/when we try this approach, to start with Open Graph and add Twitter Cards support later on if deemed necessary.
Next:
Get requirements together.