Components
The component I want to suggest here is to add a cover page or thumbnail in utopian.io contibutions. This cover page or some says a thumbnail will represents the contribution's identity.
Proposal
In some aspects, giving a identity to a thing is very important. It will give a uniqueness from others and making it easily to identify.
This is the sample contributor's account page of utopian.io and I am using mine.
In the current contributor's page, the details of his/her contribution is limited. These are Contribution's Title, Two line of Contribution Content, The Author, and the Tags used.
When I am looking for my older contributions, the only way to identify it is to read each contribution title. And sometimes it gives me a burden especially when the contribution was weeks ago. Scrolling down and looking at the contribution title makes me dizzy because some titles are similar in form (not similar in content, but somehow similar in appearance).
What I am proposing here is to add a cover page or thumbnail in every contribution.
This cover page or thumbnail is not only seen in contributor's account page, but also seen in utopian.io website.
Putting of cover page or thumbnail is can be done when creating a contribution. Create contribution page must also include a section where contributors can add the cover page or thumbnail.
Mockups / Examples
Here's how the suggestion will work.
When creating a contribution, there is an additional section where contributor's can put the image's URL of the intended cover page or thumbnail.
This cover page or thumbnail is not only seen on contributor's account page, but, also seen by contributors in utopian.io website.
Benefits
Here are the benefits;
- It will give an additional identity to every contribution.
- Contributor's will easily identify/find their contribution by looking at the picture.
Posted on Utopian.io - Rewarding Open Source Contributors