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This wiki is home to planning and roadmap documents for the 18F website.

Key documents

• All our design work and interaction with (potential) partners is guided by our experience principles.
• We store research plans, scripts, and summaries in the research branch, which is organized by sprint name.
• For editorial style, we follow the 18F Content Guide.
• Our project hypotheses document why we're doing what we're doing, and what we're hoping to accomplish.
• For more about how to contribute to the site, see our contributing guidelines.
• Helpful thread on analytics

Core hypotheses / current work

First up / MVP

1. Reorganizing the homepage will make it quicker for users to understand who we are
   • Changing hero to "about" statement [link will go to "what we deliver"]
   • Linking to 2 project pages
   • Call to action that links to "Hire 18f"
   • Remove "what we deliver" section with icons
2. Introducing new categories of projects (from Outreach/Communications work) will help partners understand what we do
   • Frame our work as "helping agencies improve public-facing services, implement new laws or mandates, or improve internal systems"
   • Use these categories in all places where we explain what we do or feature projects
3. Improving the "what we deliver" page will help partners understand what we do
   • Dependency: at least 3 project pages
   • Re-write "what we deliver" content to introduce project pages
   • Consider organizing by problem type
   • List of partners
   • Add call to action
4. Telling users what to expect when they contact us will make the business development process smoother
   • Add more content under "Hire us"
   • Tell users what to expect after contacting us
5. Changing the "Hire 18F" and "Join 18F" nav labels will make people less confused about which is which
   • Change either Hire or both of these words

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Next up / ideas:

1. Improve project page layout
   • Callouts
   • Call to action
   • New image handling
   • Subnavigation / breadcrumbs
2. Update Join 18F content to be clearer about our hiring status