Calling all Coil creators: user research
Following a conversation with John – @BurntEnds88 – on Friday, we thought it would be good to gather some information from Coil's content creator community.
It was largely sparked by John's recent terrific post Five Things I Want To See on Coil. If you haven't read it yet, please show John some love and show appreciation for this post, because it's really thought-provoking.
Specifically, we'd like to know if you think that a searchable index page where you can find content either by Coil creators OR content topics would be a good feature to implement. We think it's integral to Coil's user experience.
Do you think this should be the most important feature on the Coil roadmap right now? If not, what would you prioritise above this as a feature?
If you could tag your own content, which categories would you use for what you've written so far? Do you think anything is missing from this list?
We can use this to highlight content gaps that we're short of on Coil and put out more targeted, focused tweets to other blogging communities to try and get particular bloggers interested to come over.
We also think that the number of responses might be indicative of how many creators are active within the community. We can gauge an idea of our size and how much potential there is for us to grow.
We can pass the responses back to the Coil team and possibly report back and use the information within the community to develop some of the features we'd like to see ourselves.
If Coil aren't doing this themselves – or their ability to chip in is coming further down the line – where's the harm in us trying to propel this forward?
So, with that in mind, we'd like you to take 5 mins out of your day to answer our questions. If you could turn it round by Friday 10 July, we'll be back soon with the results.
It's difficult to collaborate on content when it can only be hosted on one Coil profile, but for the record – John was integral in the production of this content and Google Form below – this was very much a joint effort by both of us.
If you want to talk to us on Twitter about this, please be sure to include us both: @SethStanley17 and @BurntEnds88