CUNY Academic Commons

I'm going to turn this over to Chris for the moment. I can do some of the internal logic for determining "doneness", but I'd like to hear his thoughts about what the nudges are like. Are we talking a banner or overlay on profiles? Email notifications? Some persistent piece of UI (like a progress bar)? Chris, no need for heavy-duty concept art, but maybe you have some preliminary thoughts.

I think in the short term for simplicity sake this would be easiest to add to the portfolio page when you are viewing your own profile.

Simplest
Just add some text that says something like "Your profile is 40% complete."
See profile-completeness-no-bar.png for an example

Visual
Here we add a simple progress bar under the text above.
See profile-completeness.png for an example

Interactive
Here we could add the progress bar to the edit screen and update it dynamically as people fill in their profiles. This is probably more a project for a rainy day than something we need right now.

Completion Rubric
Boone you already said you had an idea about this. I'm offering my take in case it helps. If you have other ideas I'm fine with that (maybe you could give the basic logic here so we could see?). My rubric basically puts 50% in the black area and 50% in the sections. They're all roughly equal.

If we want to skew more to one item than another (like Academic Interest being 15% or whatever), I'm OK with the idea, but then we should also have a way to communicate that emphasis to users so that would mean by also displaying the breakdown of what completeness means. Maybe wait on deciding that until v2.

0% Name: this is required and everyone has so no points

10% Brief Descriptor

10% About You

10% Any 1 of (Phone, Email IM)
- alternate: phone 3%, email 4%, IM 3%

10% Any 1 of: Web site, blog
- alternate: web site 5%, blog 5%

10% Any Social media

SECTIONS

10% Academic Interests

10% Positions

10% Publications

10% Education

10% Any 1 of the other sections (Free Text, RSS, Twitter)

I agree that not knowing why their profile isn't complete isn't ideal for ux. I also had a hard time figuring out a good way to show it on the profile page which is already so packed.

The hover is interesting, and Matt I agree putting the full rubric there is too much. Your sentence is OK, although not too much more info than can be inferred.

If we do want to show what's missing on the hover we could give them an slightly shortened version like
Missing Fields
- Brief Descriptor
- About You
- Any 1 of (Phone, Email IM)
- Any 1 of: Web site, blog
- Any Social Media
- Academic Interests
- Positions
- Publications
- Education
- Any 1 of (Free Text, RSS, Twitter)

or
Missing Fields
- Brief Descriptor
- About You
- Any 1 of (Phone, Email IM)
- Any 1 of: Web site, blog
- Any Social Media
- Sections: Academic Interests, Positions, Publications, Education, Free Text, RSS, Twitter

or more generic on sections
- Sections: 2/5 completed

If an area was complete it would not appear so only those with almost no information would see a long list.

For 1.6 I am OK with you (Boone) implementing or not whatever hover you're capable of.

In a future release I can think about it a bit more and I also want to add some of this information on the My Commons #2945 area

I'm afraid this has all gotten a bit complicated. Given that we are already past the point at which we were supposed to have finished development and begun testing, I'm going to move this item to 1.7.

I've implemented Chris's recommended formula from http://redmine.gc.cuny.edu/issues/3012#note-4. Changeset: https://github.com/cuny-academic-commons/cac/commit/c851b90f7b140032c06a4f2bf9b2880d6153813c

There's a little question mark next to the message. Hovering over it gives you a summary of what you need to complete.

Ready to test on cdev.

Cool - thanks for your help, Chris!