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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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  • It does seem a little strange to me that following the main header "Now Enrolling RoadTests" is "Recent Blog Posts". Why blog posts and not road test reviews. It seems that the reviews have been pushed to the (right hand) side, as a list, and then bolted onto the bottom of the page and so they are not as prominent, in my opinion. Maybe blog posts and reviews need to be swapped.

    Then it would be handy if there were categories that could be clicked on to provide relevant reviews. For example, an "Oscilloscopes" category, a "Bluetooth wireless" category, or a "Hand tools" category etc.

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  • It does seem a little strange to me that following the main header "Now Enrolling RoadTests" is "Recent Blog Posts". Why blog posts and not road test reviews. It seems that the reviews have been pushed to the (right hand) side, as a list, and then bolted onto the bottom of the page and so they are not as prominent, in my opinion. Maybe blog posts and reviews need to be swapped.

    Then it would be handy if there were categories that could be clicked on to provide relevant reviews. For example, an "Oscilloscopes" category, a "Bluetooth wireless" category, or a "Hand tools" category etc.

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  • in reply to BigG
    BigG said:
    It does seem a little strange to me that following the main header "Now Enrolling RoadTests" is "Recent Blog Posts". Why blog posts and not road test reviews.

    I've noticed that the recent road test reviews are currently positioned in the right-hand rail, which can be a bit confusing to navigate for some users. I'm not entirely sure why this was done, but I believe it might have been inherited from the previous platform. Nevertheless, I think it's worth considering a more user-friendly layout that makes it easier for everyone to find what they're looking for. I've gone ahead and moved the reviews to a more prominent location, although I understand that this may affect the layout on mobile devices.