Coming Quickly: Freshening up the Zooniverse Homepage


The Zooniverse has come a good distance since starting our journey collectively in 2009 – from the launch of the Undertaking Builder to supporting various job sorts throughout the disciplines, together with transcription, tagging, and marking. This fall, we’re persevering with our frontend codebase migration and design evolution with a contemporary, fashionable redesign to a few of our major pages – this replace focuses on freshening up our homepage.

What’s Coming?

  • Your Stats: Now, you’ll be able to extra simply monitor your progress and targets. See all of your classification stats on one web page and filter by venture or time-frame.
  • Volunteer Recognition: We heard you! Create customized volunteer certificates proper on the homepage. Excellent for college students needing proof of volunteer hours!
  • Group Engagement: Create your group, arrange targets and see the influence you’re making collectively. Nice for households, groups, lecture rooms, or associates engaged on initiatives collectively.
  • Straightforward Navigation: Click on the Zooniverse emblem within the upper-left nook of any web page to return to your homepage simply.

Learn on for extra particulars.

Zooniverse Redesigned Homepage

The zooniverse.org homepage serves a broad viewers of latest and returning volunteers, educators, and researchers. We consider the homepage ought to be a central hub the place these completely different audiences can discover the instruments they should make their Zooniverse expertise satisfying and worthwhile. Now you’ll have the ability to decide up the place you left off classifying, see your stats at a look, and observe up in your final classifications so as to add them to a set, favourite, or remark.

A standard request over time has been higher instruments for capturing particular person and group influence. Because of assist from NASA, we’ve been working arduous to implement improved private stats and new options that help you see the collective influence of your teams – whether or not you’re a household, a company group, a classroom, or just a bunch of associates keen about taking part in initiatives collectively. We’ve made important strides in bringing these functionalities to life.

Key options of your new homepage:

Customized Statistics: We’re making it a little bit simpler to maintain monitor of your progress and targets. Now your whole real-time classification stats may be discovered on one web page and you’ll filter by venture or by a particular time-frame. Entry detailed details about your contributions, together with the variety of classifications, initiatives you’ve labored on, and your influence over time. 

Zooniverse Personal Statistics

A foundational step on this effort was a whole overhaul of our stats infrastructure to make sure higher reliability and stability. Shifting ahead, zooniverse.org private stats will pull information solely from our up to date stats server, reflecting contributions from 2007 onwards.

Volunteer Recognition: Generate customized volunteer certificates proper out of your Zooniverse homepage! Customizable to particular time intervals and initiatives. An typically requested function for college students fulfilling volunteer service hour necessities. 

Zooniverse Volunteer Certificate

Group Engagement: A brand new strategy to create and share group targets and inform the story of your collective influence. When the brand new homepage launches, we’ll publish a sequence of weblog posts with extra particulars. 

Zooniverse Group Engagement Statistics

Streamlined Navigation: Take pleasure in a neater stream by clicking the Zooniverse emblem within the upper-left on any web page to return to your homepage.

We worth your suggestions! Subsequent week we’ll launch the brand new homepage. Should you encounter any difficulties or have questions as you’re utilizing the brand new homepage, please share them in this Speak thread and point out @assist.

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