Hi Pramit.
Thanks for taking the challenge of making Pontoon look awesome and attract more contributors! In general I like your proposal. May I have a few questions to clarify design of individual “slides”?
Slide 1 (Pontoon):
- The top right part looks empty and sad to me, but it may be caused by my screen resolution. Do you plan to reshuffle the content based on screen size to use all the space?
- I like the clean design. Is the top menu bar meant to stay visible, when scrolling down?
Slide 2 (Things which make is special):
- Does this slide focus on contributors, l10n managers or l10n engineers?
- To address contributors, I think we should highlight the fact, that Pontoon is built for (and by) localizers. As a person with English as my n-th language, I am not sure about the term “localization management platform”.
- The same for the features on the right. As a localizer I would expect machine translation, translation memory and quality checks to be placed on the top.
Slide 3 (Using it is super simple):
- I like the timeline design. I see you have got inspired by the user activity timeline.
- Do you want to make the actions on the timeline actionable/clickable? So when someone sees it and clicks “Pick your team”, they can actually pick the locale they want to contribute and start.
- Instead of “wait until it gets approved…” and “wait until it lands…” I would prefer less waiting. Maybe a better wording would be “Your suggestion gets approved…” and “Your contribution lands…”. Or to propose more contributions instead of waiting for the first strings to land.
- +1 for “Show it to your friends”. That was one of the motivations that has driven my first contributions.
Slide 4 (In-context localization):
- I very like this feature. Nevertheless I have to say there are very few Mozilla websites that really support it, so people might be disappointed it is not available for Firefox and most of other projects.
Slide 5 (Join us):
- I like this one. Clear call to action!
- I have realized current Pontoon dashboards (like the Teams dashboard) are missing any Mozilla branding. Do you think it would be possible to create some unified footer line to share across all pages, except the translate view of course? The same way like you have decided to share the menu.
I need to say this page looks really nice and I think it will attract more contributors than the current and outdated intro. Looking at my e-mail, it may look like a criticism, but please keep in mind I am not a designer, so most of my comments a proposals may be just rubbish.
Michal