present refined design to Geth team - Martin, Sina, Felix and Peter signed off on it. Joseph reminded the team to please review some pages on the geth-website repo.
Sync between Joseph, Josh, Nuno with Geth team to present design ideas
Joseph gave overview of project progress, reiterated resources incl Github repository, Discord channel, Figma doc, Notion docs
Joseph gave overview of content layout and pointed Geth team to issue trackers on the Github, in particular pointing out pages that have not yet been reviewed.
From meeting transcript:
“In terms of the content architecture, the headline is really that we heard loud and clear in the first feedback meeting with Sina and Felix to keep things simple and generate minimal new content, focus on improving the downloads page and the site UX rather than creating new onboarding material etc.
So overall we plan to have a modified homepage but without adding too much new content to it, and then really only having two places to go from HOME - DOWNLOADS or DOCS
Downloads will then be a much more performant page to download the binaries - Sam and Nico are in charge of how that will actually work but they seem confident that they know what they're doing so I'll kind of skip that for now.
Docs will then be refined versions pretty much of what is on the site at the moment, but reorganized into what I think is an easier structure to navigate and with some gaps filled and pages refined/updated. For a detailed look at where each individual page fits in the proposed structure, take a look at the content folder in the GH repo…
The content is all laid out there as I intend it to be laid out on the site, the top level categories are:
getting started
fundamentals
developers --geth-developers, --dapp-developers
interacting with Geth
monitoring
tools
The main things to point out are that there ARE some new pages that I've added, and many pages have been updated/modified relative to the original versions from the current website.
It would be extremely helpful if, if people can find any time, they could go through and review those pages before the website goes live so I've got time to make any necessary changes.
I've got a tracker here,
and it is also replicated in the image on the right of the screen - ticked boxes have been reviewed already, unticked still need reviewing. Many of these have only been modified slightly, maybe just syntax or something noncritical, others are completely new pages. Those are identified on the image with the green text saying "new page" - so it would really be useful if people could start just scanning and ticking these pages off if they are happy.
The following are the new pages so far:
pruning, abigen, puppeth, consensus clients, node architecture, security, devp2p, resources, and the homepage copy.”
Nuno then took over to present design ideas 1, 2,3 communicating clear preference for Idea 2 (the “retro” theme).
Feedback was overall positive. Peter and Martin seemed to like the retro theme. Felix kind of liked it too but felt that more focus should be put on readability in the docs pages and making sure there were not to many components encroaching on the main text.
New branding was overall unpopular. Felix pushed back against this unambiguously and instead suggested making more use of the Gopher mascot and dropping the new “G” logo altogether. He followed up with a wireframe version of the Gopher that could be used.
We finished by organizing a follow up call in one week where a final design will be agreed. In the meantime Nuno and Joseph will huddle and revise the retro theme to make the docs pages more readable and remove the custom branding, and incorporate the Gopher logo more.