tl;dr

DEV is redesigning the home page. But we need your help and feedback. Also, hi!

Hello, again.

This is Pawe, I'm a part of the Product Design team, here at DEV. Lisa and I joined DEV recently.

DEV + Product Design

Lisa Sy (she/her) Dec 9 '19 2 min read

#meta #design #ux

Hello World!

Pawe Ludwiczak Jan 14 2 min read

#meta

So, what does the Design team at DEV actually do? Great question! To keep it short: we're trying to make DEV more usable, better-looking, and welcoming. We're also going to work on our design system a bunch of tools and guidelines to make designing and building features much easier; it should also help us make things more consistent because well:

The Home Page

One of our very first projects will be improving DEV's home page. There are several things we'd love to do here some of them will be subtle changes and others more drastic and groundbreaking (ok, I'm exaggerating a bit).

Goals

We have one main problem to solve with the home page makeover: people struggle to find relevant content. They don't know where to look because the current home page is a bit overwhelming.

We need you!

Now, the most important part.

We don't want to sit in a closed room, moving pixels around and suddenly deploy changes that you may totally hate. We want to stay in touch with you through the entire process. We want to inform you of our ideas and progress. But most importantly, we want you, the DEV Community, to help us by providing feedback, words of wisdom, opinions, and your ideas... DEV is open source and we want to be as transparent as possible. That being said, can you let us know:

• What are some things about the home page that you dislike the most?
• What are some things about the home page that you like a lot?
• What did you wish the home page did more of?

Thank you so much for your help. Were going to take your feedback and make DEV a better place for us all! Expect another follow-up post soon with more details about Home Page work.