UX Meeting/Update and Summary

[staceyrebekahscott]

This issue is to track all of the notes and action items discussed each week. This will be updated weekly whether we have a meeting or are working asynchronously. If there are any questions about the tasks for the week or a status update on the project, please check here and in your assigned issues. Thank You!

[staceyrebekahscott]

Team meeting 04/26/22

• Joseph joined the team meeting, after a hiatus since Sept 2021.
• Updated Joseph on the current status of the project.
• Carrie presented slide deck- The state of ballot drop box voting in 2022, Academic Literature Published Work: Current state of voting via ballot drop off #486
  • Question raised by Drew re: for states that are limiting drop boxes, what exactly are the restrictions? (ex: in Ohio, they are limiting to 1 per county and if there is a ballot from another county, they are not obligated to forward it through.
  • Carrie observed that there is no real direct competitor to BallotNav.
  • She also added to the spreadsheet a space for organizations that had board of directors
• Zuri gave a brief update, and will present next week, Competitive Analysis: Direct and Indirect Competitors #487
• Federica briefed on her slide deck on methodologies, will present next week, Research Methodologies #488
  • She will connect with Zuri and Jon to add their research to the slides
  • Asked about feedback on the index for anyone to suggest anything else she should include.
• Stacey raised questions for Ongoing Website Support Capability for BallotNav.org #489
  • A regular ongoing team of developers will be needed for a website: how can HfLA support this effort long term?
  • Question about whether we can develop something that relies on volunteers to maintain: will another organization view this as viable and be willing to partner with us, or will a finished product be expected?
  • Need further investigation into what an open source software used by local or state government would look like?

For next week:

• Zuri- continue filling in competitive analysis spreadsheet, prepare to present at next meeting
• Jon- continue filling in partnership spreadsheet, prepare to present at next meeting
• Federica- continue work on methodology slide deck, prepare to present next week
• Stacey- finish project documents, expand on tasks for Ongoing Website Support Capability for BallotNav.org #489
• Karen- finish time off calendar process, continue working on Transferring files in Google Folder  #469
• Joseph- update info on roster, connect with Karen on access to BallotNav Google Drive

[staceyrebekahscott]

Team meeting agenda and notes 06/07/22

Items to discuss:

• Slide Deck= Voting Orgs groupings and Personas
• Narrow down target audience
• Review questions Layne developed
• Review process of recruiting test users
  • How to contact
  • How to conduct interviews
  • How to share insight

Notes from meeting

• Target audience will focus on the larger nationwide orgs that have voter issues as their main objective. Ex: Black Voters Matter, League of Women Voters.

  • In focusing on large orgs, we hope to get a better sense of the broad concerns of voters, as opposed to focusing on a regional org.
  • If we connect with an org that has chapters and gives us info that may pertain to a regional concern, we will have other chapters to compare the data to.

• First approach: Posting on Reddit

  • Looking for people who work for any national voting org
  • Will need to draft a survey to ask questions to prequalify respondents
    • Will use Google Forms: Name, Email/ Phone (what do they prefer), Org that they volunteer/ work for, their role in org.
    • Form will feed into info a Sheet where we can then add the data we collect from the interviews.
  • Will need to set up a calendly account to schedule interviews.
  • Will need to create a template to collect feedback from the interviews.
  • Add availability in comments to Issue Document product-market fit approach #490

• Layne to continue working on getting access to BallotNav website backend via issue Backend Knowledge Transfer for Ballot Nav - Touch base with Drew #482

• Issue Collecting Customer Data (Customer Outreach, Calendly and Customer feedback)  #492 created and assigned to Layne

• Issue Qualifying survey for potential interviewees (Google Forms) #493 created and assigned to Stacey