Provide clarity - is it a landing page or a dashboard

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Overview

There seems to be some confusion about if its a dashboard or a landing page or part of a dashboard.

Action Items

Advisory and Product need to talk to each other
Then Product needs to talk to team

Notes

This confusion surfaced during sat kanban meeting

[joelparkerhenderson]

What is a landing page?

A landing page is web page with the purpose of introducing a project to everyone. This can include stakeholders, users, employees, volunteers, donors, recruiters, reporters, search engines, etc.

Imagine a landing page as a kind of first-time tutorial. It's welcoming, friendly, and explains why the project is good, and helps novices understand.

A landing page can be simple, such as a static web page with one big image and a few text paragraphs. A landing page can be more sophisticated, with links (e.g. to other pages, FAQs...), updates (e.g. news, progress reports, ...), auths (e.g. sign up, login, ...), publish/subscribe (e.g. RSS, feeds, ...), introductory rich media (e.g. explainer video, presentation download, ...), onboarding (e.g. setups, overviews, ..) etc.

What is a dashboard?

A dashboard is view (e.g. web page, app screen, ...) with the purpose of highlighting the most-relevant most-important most-timely information for administration (e.g. of a project, website, ...), by showing instrumentation and controls that help keep things on course.

Imagine a dashboard page as akin to a automobile dashboard, where you're the driver, and you want to rapidly glance at the dashboard to know you're going the correct speed, you have enough gas or battery, and your navigation map display.

A dashboard page can be simple, such as a static web page that says "Here's what we're working on right now and how it's going". A dashboard page can be more sophisticated, with capabilities for project management (e.g. active milestones, kanban board, ..), analytics (e.g.key performance indicators, mission critical metrics, ..), important notifications (e.g. alerts, warnings, ...), administration (e.g. tooling, reporting, ...), etc.

Comparisons for software teams

A landing page is something you can share once to your social media.

A dashboard is something you and your team can look at every standup.

For more

Wikipedia / Landing page
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landing_page

Wikipedia / Dashboard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashboard

Example landing pages:
https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/landing-page-examples-list

Example dashboards:
https://speckyboy.com/beautifully-designed-admin-dashboards/