A little late is better than never. Last week’s done and this week’s doing for your perusal.
As always, this site is a work in progress, and we continue to strive to do more, and do better to help Californians.
Done
- Ran 14 usertesting.com interviews to provide feedback on a new site information architecture and design. Found some great, actionable insights regarding people’s preferences on the homepage. And identified important needs regarding search functionalities on the site
- Rolled out plasma donation search powered by our public web components and APIs
- Cut 75% off our 11ty build times by selectively running our jsdom powered post transformations based on hash comparisons and caching processed assets
- Automated stats updates with API cron job writing to GitHub
- Integrated automated image optimization into pipeline, upgraded all environments to server WebP successfully
- Designed new pages for contact tracing and plasma donation based on SME input
- Renamed high-use buttons to have more intuitive names
- Did readability editing on several web pages
- Launched the first set of changes related to the redesign into production
- Made several accessibility improvements
- Staged second set of changes to enable user testing
Doing
- Reviewing our quick answer dataset generated from site crawl against the call center Q&A docs. If we can publish regular change lists automatically might be helpful
- Continue to monitor and revamp the broad survey
- Prototyping reorganized content based on user feedback and known audiences
- Working on developing a global navigation for the website
- Synthesizing and incorporating user research into redesign