A design thoughts page to brainstorm / discuss Orcas Hub user experience. Loose order of priority based on placement in list.
Event Thoughts
The calendar view seems like a pretty useless view in general. It lacks the benefit of the expanded google calendar (see Odd Fellows calendar), and there's too many events for two months
Potential Solutions
Move it to a time view, like next three days or next week
Get rid of it all together
Radically change the view to include some events and list them out
Too many events listed overwhelms and provides marginal use without filters
I think we need a default filtered view, obviously this brings the challenge of editorial but I see no way around that for the default view
If you go to collections you can “Show Collection in home” which lets the main page be a default collection.
Places and Types are mixed together in collections and tags
I think we should have collections be types of events, and then have a separate list of default places to sort. This will require us to do some new feature work and design work, but I see no way around that.
Before jumping there we should try to see how good we can make it without feature / design work.
Idea: label venues with “Venue-” in collections, it would lump them together and differentiate from genres (note: it looks horrible)
Big lists of text are visually…. lacking
It seems like it would be nice to lean onto images when events have them, most calendars do so on other pages (library, chamber)