Design an interactive browse element

[tpendragon]

Reasoning

One of our primary goals is to enable joyful discovery. To support that we should have some way from the home page to draw people in to discover. In mockup 3 we played with the concept of a tree browse. We have also discussed other browse concepts.

User Story

As an information seeker I want a relaxing browse experience that affords serendipitous discovery so that I can find resources that inspire me in my work or hobbies.

Out of Scope

Note that we discussed whether this feature should focus on the question "what is the scope and collection focus of this website?" We decided that is not what this feature is about. We may at some point want to address that use case in another way.

Working this ticket

• We will produce several concepts for joyful browse. more than one member of the team may pitch concepts.
• Each concept will address 3 elements:
  • Where the browse experience initiates (home page?) and its default state
  • What happens when you use the browse
  • Results displayed by the browse.

Acceptance Criteria

To close this ticket we need:

• An accepted set of wireframes for a joyful browse.
• A list of metadata fields we'd have to index to support the browse.

First Step

Bust out the wireframing tools.

[hackartisan]

Issue updated per discussion

[sdellis]

Interesting visualizations of a Collection