Please review the following pages for glaring errors or omissions. Add your comments to this document by end of day Friday, September 13, 2024.
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HOME/TOP NAVIGATION
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(Deems) Overall comment - this looks good!
(Deems) We’re “wasting” a lot of valuable space on the home page with the image and a single “Get Started” box. Can we shrink that and display the text below the image more prominently?
There’s also a lot of wasted space in the white box next to the NSF/ACCESS logos
Since there’s now a “News” button on the navigation bar, maybe we should scrap listing the news at the bottom of the page.
(Deems) the “Find Information for You” section shouldn’t be buried at the bottom. Consider moving this just below the first 2 paragraphs of text.
(Deems) the videos at the bottom have strikingly low views (under 200 for each). Can we put these in another place?
GET STARTED
https://access.qltddev.com/get-started/
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(Deems) Meta Comment about Personas: Instead of “I’m a…” consider rephrasing to “For…” (e.g. “For Researchers”, “For Graduate Students”, “For Educators”
this would play off nicely with “ACCESS For…(insert persona)”
(Deems) The “What’s next?” section looks a little funky in boxes. Can we make these a list with drop-downs for more information?
I think my general comment is: “there’s a lot of info in this page, and we might be able to organize better.”
(Hart) It leads with a link to the About ACCESS FAQ page, followed by a repeat (with a different look) of the persona links, THEN, three steps to get started, PLUS six possible (unnumbered) followup actions (several with multiple links). It feels like this page can't commit to what it wants to be or do. Furthermore, much of the Get Started page and the About ACCESS page FAQ seem to primarily target Researchers. So the new For Researchers page seems to add another layer of uncertainty. Which page should Researchers *really* start with? The About ACCESS page could just be a standard text page, mainly with the answers to the first of the two questions there. The other questions should be moved to the most appropriate persona pages. So "About ACCESS" would no longer be an FAQ page. For the Get Started page, I'd omit the boxes for the personas here. I'd also try to structure the page consistently as steps 1-6. Keep steps 1-3 but turn the "What's Next" boxes into steps 4-6 somehow.
FOR RESEARCHERS
https://access.qltddev.com/get-started/for-researchers/
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(Deems) Considering adding “available through ACCESS” to the opening sentence: “Computational researchers of all experience levels use advanced computational resources available through ACCESS to take their research to the next level.
(Hart - for all non-RP persona pages)Each starts with a "content-free" sentence, then pushes again the About ACCESS FAQ, then a set of Quick Links, then — if you scroll far enough — a different set of FAQs. E.g., three handfuls of spaghetti hoping we'll get something that sticks. The Quick Links on each persona pages, should be turned into Qs for the FAQ lists, if they're not already there. So, just one FAQ list for each persona.
FOR EDUCATORS
https://access.qltddev.com/get-started/for-educators/
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FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS
https://access.qltddev.com/get-started/for-graduate-students/
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(Deems) Please remove this sentence: ; “NSF Graduate Fellows are eligible PIs for small-scale awards.”
We’ll be modifying this policy so that all graduate students are equal.
FOR RESOURCE PROVIDERS
https://access.qltddev.com/get-started/for-resource-providers/
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(Deems) Insert links to the Integration Roadmaps documentation?
(Hart) I will add that "explore why become an RP" doesn't seem grammatically correct. And even nit-pickier, in the box at right, the apostrophe in "I'm a Resource Provider" is backwards.
FOR PROGRAMS & ORGANIZATIONS
https://access.qltddev.com/get-started/for-programs-organizations/
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(Deems) Insert quick link for “Promote your events and news…” with a link to the Support team’s functionality
(Deems) Remove “Eligibility” from the quick links.
BECOME A RESOURCE PROVIDER
https://access.qltddev.com/about/resource-providers/
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(Deems) rephrase this → “the expertise of data experts” to “and their expertise” (not sure why it’s limited to “data experts”…)
(Deems) “What are the qualifications to become an RP?” is blank
I’m really interested in reading that section
(Deems) instead of “See which institutions and organizations are currently participating in the ACCESS program.” with a link, consider saying “Scroll down to see which institutions and organizations…”
GET INVOLVED
https://access.qltddev.com/about/get-involved/
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(Deems) general comment, I don’t see this linked from the landing page. I see it linked from the “About” page.
(Deems) this first paragraph needs proofread and word-smithed:
“Being a part of ACCESS will give you a unique experience, allow you the opportunity to network with other researchers, and give you the chance to discover valuable insights on how to get your research project rolling.”
We should lead with an overview of the ways people can get involved rather than very generic text about unique experiences.