System Onboarding

[PixelantDesign]

User Story

As a new developer to Gitcoin, I want to understand what the platform is all about so that I can decide which areas I'm interested and be directed to the right place.

Why Is this Needed

Summary: People are confused when they come into the app

Description

Feature

From townsquare, how do devs that don't know what its offered at Gitcoin onboard into the experience?
From townsquare how do new devs interested in hackathons onboard into the hackathon experience?

Current Behavior

Not a full flow

Expected Behavior

Full, smart, progressive flow

Definition of Done

Propose a design with these criteria in mind....

1. capture data of user’s preferences
   upon signup, we could ask the user to select what kinds of things they’re interested, and we store that into the database so we know their personas. then we can do things like: • send hackathon emails to users who indicated they’re interested in hackathons, • display different town square modules based on each persona (don’t show things they’re not interested in), etc.

2. how might we encourage more user interaction in the town square and make the feed less cluttered
   town square feels different now compared to when we just launched it. too many automated posts (new hacker, new bounty) might confuse people on which posts are by real people. posts from orgs (in the future) could be buried under all these automated posts too.
   for automated posts like new bounty, maybe we could consider using notifications or emails to send users relevant bounties directly.

General Onboarding Improvements

• Introduce Gitcoin the platform/product and what's here
• Make the experience progressive, Teach users about the platform
• Capture general developer interest
• Have a profile completion component
• Townsquare will display relevant modules based on selected interests
• Optimize how we get hackers in through townsquare
• User test

Data Requirements

comment: # (How will we measure the success of this feature? What kind of tracking is needed for this feature (clicks, impressions, flag)?)

Additional Information

#7119

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