Re: [Tails-project] Redesign of the donate page

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Autor: intrigeri
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Betreff: Re: [Tails-project] Redesign of the donate page
Hi,

sajolida:
> 1. Changed the buttons to purple. I tried green as well but I thought is
> was too much (see attachment).


Looks good!

> One day we'll have a better color palette :(


IIRC there are tools that generate one for you, given a few parameters
(I'm optimistic enough to believe that providing two colors may be
enough parameters) so perhaps that's not a hard task. Anyone willing
to give it a try, enjoy!

> 3. Wrote a text for the left part, filling up the white space.
> I actually wrote that a while ago and I thought I sent it to you in my
> previous email but apparently I didn't...


I like it. Maybe this is important enough to be reviewed by native
English language geeks?

> 6. Combined DrWhax's suggestion for the introductory sentence with the
> previous one. Now we have: "Show your friends that you care about
> privacy and Internet freedom and encourage others to do the same!".


The two occurrences of "and" in a row, that have different roles in
the sentence, makes it a bit confusing to me.

Maybe adding a comma helps a bit: "Show your friends that you care
about privacy and Internet freedom, and encourage others to do the
same!".

Or: "Show your friends that you care about privacy and Internet
freedom! Encourage others to do the same!".

> 7. I didn't add a $43 because it's very close from $50 and I didn't have
> data about whether the possible extra attractiveness for geeks would
> overweight the extra space and looking weird to everybody else who
> doesn't understand the insider's joke.


I agree it's not clear cut; let's not do it (too bad, I really liked
the idea :)

(Meta: it's very unlikely that we can ever make such a decision based
on actual data, so let's not raise the bar for suggestions to
unrealistic levels.)

> 8. Display bitcoin address.


FYI the attached screenshots don't show the bottom of the page.

> 9. Regarding the financial reports, I'm not yet decided. On the one hand
> I want to avoid as much as possible providing links outside of this
> page: once people land on this page we want them to make a donation and
> not jump elsewhere and forget to go back (you know how people browser
> the web...).


Indeed, that's a very important point.

> But that's also a legitimate information to have here...


Not only it's legitimate, but also I _guess_ that being told what the
money is used for can help motivate people to donate.

> So I thought about adding more info on the page itself,


Yes! I think that's the best way to handle this.

> like a pie chart, maybe in a toggle.
> See https://supporters.eff.org/donate/button. And maybe also a link
> to the financial statements anyway but quite small then.


I like the idea of a toggleable area, hidden by default. A pie chart
would be ideal, but if time is scarce, a bullet list of the biggest
expense accounts with percentages would already be great :)

> 10. Added something about independence from government funding.


Great!

Just curious: is it on purpose that no goal is set for this donation
campaign? Is it because we don't have an easy way to display its
progress yet? If it is so, I wonder: perhaps setting a clear goal,
even without progress indication, would help potential donors
understand what the order of magnitude is, how much money we need to
keep the thing rolling. I'm not sure.

Cheers,
--
intrigeri