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Consultation: Improving the browsing of RoadTests (and maybe RoadTest Reviews)

cstanton

Hello everyone,

I'm interested in improving how you can look through and browse RoadTests (and probably RoadTest Reviews).

You should all be familiar with the RoadTest group landing page:

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And then if you want to browse RoadTests past and present:

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And RoadTest Reviews past and present:

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You may already be thinking "But  , this is fine!" and that's good feedback.

However you may be thinking "I put a lot of work into my RoadTest Review, I want it to be visible, for people to find it, for it to look nice!" and that's something I'm interested in as well.

Currently there're some challenges if you're looking for a RoadTest and its associated Reviews that I can see, as it's hard to:

- Find all the reviews by a particular manufacturer or supplier

- Find all of the reviews about a particular product, especially if the reviews aren't all posted at once

- See an 'aggregated' overall 5 star review that takes into account all reviews of the product/roadtest

What's useful to keep in mind when thinking about this is:

- If we're presenting new information, where will that come from?

- Can we reuse information that's already shown?

o Examples of this can be:

x Images of products from a RoadTest page

x Names of products/suppliers from a RoadTest page

x The description of the product from the RoadTest page

x Review stars from RoadTest Reviews

x Possibly images from RoadTest Reviews (if they're included)

x Links to RoadTests and RoadTest Reviews

It's also a bit easier for us if we can re-use 'widgets' or 'tools' that already exist on the site. An example might be if we consider the 'project videos' from element14 presents being a good way to show content:  Project Videos Might be adaptable as a way to search through RoadTests and Reviews?

But it's also important for us to know, how you use and browse this content, and how that experience is on a mobile device vs on a desktop device.

Note, what's out of scope for this request, are any changes to the current RoadTest or RoadTest Review layout of those content types themselves.

So, thoughts?

 

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  • I browse the content on Windows PCs only.  The phone is just too small for an enjoyable experience.

    The first thing I'd recommend is in line with  "s comment on the grayness. The tabs are very inconspicuous.  They shouldn't be.  Use the same inverted color scheme as the circles above to draw attention to the tabs - especially the Reviews tabs.

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    Yeah... the graphic above is uninspiring.  It should help trigger my distracted brain to go look.

    How about a second Search search bar on the Roadtest Group landing page that has selectable filters by Reviewer, by Roadtest, by Sponsor, or Within the Last 12 Months?  The advanced Search feature isn't so flexible as to find everyone but whatever algorithm populates it could scrape the Roadtest reviewers from the Roadtest and build the dropdown.

    The reviewer rating of the product and number of views is definitely of interest to me.  I struggle with a "Top Reviews" section because once I read the Roadtest... I move on.  HOWEVER, If I haven't read it... I will.  Therein lies the struggle.  If we go that route, it should land immediately beneath the Open Roadtests.  The Recent Roadtests pane on the right is very useful and I don't think it need to change.

    My 2 cents. Relaxed

  • in reply to kmikemoo
    kmikemoo said:
    The phone is just too small for an enjoyable experience.

    Not to ignore the rest of your (very good) points - what's the screen resolution of your phone?

  • in reply to cstanton

    iPhone 9, 750 x 1334 pixels, 294 ppi.  The phone thing is way more of a "Why stare at a tiny screen when I can just fire up the computer or laptop?"

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