UX/UI and design wishes for accessible navigation of the book

[malvikasharan]

Summary

• The Turing Way will work with a member of the Turing Research Engineering group who will help enhance the UX/UI of the project

What needs to be done?

• Revamp the landing page to make navigation of the book simpler
• Build cue card feature that allows access to the curated sets of chapters (persona wise curation should be done by community members)
• Build tagging feature in The Turing Way resources (chapters, templates, pages etc.) so that it is easy to find relevant pages
• Allow people to build their personal set of curated chapter
• Design UX/UI research plan (interview, form, call for ideas, working group etc.)
• Involve @choldgraf or someone from his team so that upstream contributions are planned from the start

Who can help?

• REG member (6 months, half time paid position - already coordinated with the responsible group at Turing)
• Anyone who would like to share their feedback and idea should comment below

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Updates

[da5nsy]

A little piece of UI feedback: currently on mobile the hypothes.is buttons overlap with the fullscreen/github/download buttons.
I assume that this is an upstream issue though.

[choldgraf]

Indeed that's an upstream fix. PRs are most welcome - I don't understand CSS well enough to figure it out haha

[da5nsy]

Oop, @RaoOfPhysics got there before me: executablebooks/jupyter-book#1392

[RaoOfPhysics]

@da5nsy, yeah, I posted about it in the Slack as well. :)

@choldgraf, I don't know enough CSS either, but I managed to track down a version of Jupyter Book in which the rendering is fine, but that's because the top bar is styled differently.

One option, which I proposed in executablebooks/jupyter-book#1392 is to use a hidden sidebar.

[choldgraf]

Yeah - makes sense to try out, or at least potentially make configurable in sphinx-comments (the package that provides that functionality). I think that issue will need a champion to pick it up though, as right now I believe most people in the EBP world are totally swamped with other issues and work duties 😞

[malvikasharan]

Thanks everyone for the comments.
I just want to emphasise that this issue is to only collect feedback (not to expect immediate solution or overwhelm the Jupyterbook developers 😅) on what needs to be improved in The Turing Way and how we can do that while ensuring that upstream contributions are made.