Add ways for users to register and sign in

[paulcretu]

• Goal: encourage users to log in or register
• Logged in users will get credit for their detections
• Opportunities for user registration:
  • Existing mailing list (highest ROI)
  • Visiting page / playing audio
  • Notifications subscribe (lowest ROI)

Tasks

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1. Add sign in button to nav #304
   type: improvement +1
2. Add user profile page #305
   needs: design input type: feature type: improvement +3
3. Add user registration as part of the notification subscription #307
   type: improvement +1
   
4. Send update to existing subscribers about user registration #308
   type: chore +1
   
5. Add a link to user registration in the report sound flow #309
   type: improvement +1
6. Add usernames #310
   type: feature +1
   
7. Record user detection if logged in
8. Investigate new registration and notification subscription flow #333
   needs: design input needs: discussion +2
   

[scottveirs]

Spit-balling other incentives and features that came to mind in today's standup --

1. Leaderboard of which registered users have been "first" to detect whale sounds (confirmed by a moderator), ranked by total number of confirmed first detections. This could be filtered by time periods (maybe defaulting to the last 3 years? or all time?). One place it could live is in the lower left of live.orcasound.net landing page (on desktop). It maybe should also be filtered by role in the community (e.g. new users or concerned community scientists aka registered users are not competing with professional conservation scientists aka moderators)
2. Some credit in the notification email if their detection was part of a candidate validated by moderators
3. Associating/listing username in views of reports e.g. adjacent to Listeners column in a candidate view like this one.

-- All/most of which should get some UX research/input before being implemented! ;)

[UXBrendan]

@scottveirs

Totally. I think that the ideas you have are good- they represent the goals of Orcasound. I think where UX Research can come in is in understanding the interaction design elements that would best address your listed aims and then running usability testing to understand a level of usability and what could be improved.

Should I form a UX project team around this initiative?