UX Research call #22: European Bitcoiners

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UTCTime: 2023-06-22 14:00 UTC
Duration: 1h

Agenda

This call will be with the European Bitcoiners team.

European Bitcoiners is a pleb community initiative focused on spreading Bitcoin across Europe and bringing the European Plebs closer together.

They have built a website and would like to improve the overall user experience.
Link to website

During this call we will discuss:

• The user persona: who is the website for and what are their goals.
• Website improvements: How can we improve the usability of the website for this persona?

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Documenting a few things/suggestions we discussed on the call:

Homepage:

• Logo: European Bitcoiners: Reduce to single line.

Above the fold:

• Getting started (above the fold) add a tagline, tagline suggestion: "Learn bitcoin in your own language"

• Highlight tab when on home, show interaction selection.

• Idea: Three selection buckets:

1. I'm new to bitcoin
   Show users the top 5 articles book suggestions
2. Non beginner
   Show the latest articles
3. Looking for community
   Show communities and events

Languages:

• Language selection: Be able to select more than one language.
• Different languages on the main screen change to all one language.
• Language selection: People choose their languages of choice when they land on the homepage.
• Language selection: Similar to Wikipedia homepage, first the user selects the language that they would like to read in.
• Idea: Display country flags in orange and interactive states are in full color.

Articles:

• Articles reading: Add the language that user is reading the article in.
• Articles: Call to action underneath the articles to join the local community.

Information architecture:

Reduce the menu choices that are provided to users
Example below:

Next steps:

The community will have a live design session where we will ideate on how to bring the above and other ideas to the homepage to improve its usability.

Leaving issue open to document the community design initiative.

Links to call recordings:
BitcoinTv
Youtube

Link to Figma file we will be designing in.

[mouxdesign]

Adding in a quick update on the Jam session. Together Christoph, Michael and Mo did a jam session and ideated on homepage design ideas.

The following ideas were created during that session.