Project X isn't easily found from the Launchpad home page

Bug #522713 reported by Matthew Revell
12
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Launchpad itself
Triaged
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

When, as a first-time visitor, I come to the Launchpad home page, I see a lot of information about what Launchpad does and even some links to blog posts about Launchpad.

While there is a general search box and a list of featured projects, there isn't anything to guide me towards finding the specific project I want to work on. Launchpad can be quite intimidating, so I think we can afford to offer a little hand-holding to help inexperienced users towards the project they're interested in.

GitHub and Sourceforge both make their home page search box far more prominent than ours. Admittedly, GitHub's doesn't offer project search, as such.

I think we could do something visually similar to help guide new users towards the search box and explicitly state that you can find projects by searching. It may seem obvious to us but this came up as a problem for new users looking to get involved in projects a number of times in the UDS-L interviews.

Tags: lp-registry ui
Revision history for this message
Gary Poster (gary) wrote :

I don't think I'm the right person to triage this; however it is my job, since it is in Foundations and there's no better team. Therefore, I'm triaging this low, but largely because it is not in my domain. I'm very happy for someone else to claim it, escalate it, and tell me that their team will accept bugs like this in the future.

Changed in launchpad-foundations:
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Low
Gary Poster (gary)
tags: added: ui
Curtis Hovey (sinzui)
affects: launchpad-foundations → launchpad-registry
Revision history for this message
Francis J. Lacoste (flacoste) wrote :

Re-assigned to Registry, since I think it's best to consider the first-time experience and the home page part of the Registry responsibilities.

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