Design Grand Steemit User Experience (I didn't settle on the name yet, this is a working project name so far)
Idea
How successful anything is depends on the User Experience (UX) and Steemit is no an exception. Though good and proper User-Experience takes a long time to design and develop and often it is something technical teams don't think about at all.
Therefore I want to utilize the Users of Steemit as they know the best how they feel about the current UX, what can be improved and changed, or what is missing.
This would help Steemit even more and in turn help everyone on here.
How will it work?
Contest would be every two or three weeks lasting 5 rounds. (so 10 SBD per winner + whatever they get from getting their submission upvoted and whatever SBD would the post generate would go towards development/or to the winner - I'd have to decide)
There would be topic for each installment of the content, eg. "Improving Onboarding", "Improving finding relevant content", "Helping new users feel welcome in the community", "Starting Conversations with Blog posts", "Improving Long-term quality of Blogposts by supporting great content that's valuable for Lifetime", etc.
Though the topics would be gathered from the community as the community knows best what's missing, and then the contest can start.
People then submit their thought process behind certain Feature or UX design, create a prototype, and then let people vote for the best "solution" to the problem.
Why this
I want to quit my job and change careers completely and User Experience Design is on my mind and I think it's great. And I want to see how it could work if the actual Users do the design. If it's successfull then it will even improve Steemit.
And it's also very community driven and decentralized so I would be in no seat of power, and I like that.