Both Russell and Jonathan were on the meeting. We had a good talk and discussion and it was mostly lead by Russell. In a way, we lightly took over the meeting and Jonathan didn't really get to report on much of what he was working on. Here are some notes from the meeting.

- Talking about a visual appeal

- Function vs form (look and style) - this is always a debate

- We need to find the balance between the number of settings and what can be customized

- Russell really wants things to be... powerful, beautiful, and easy

- We spent some time talking about design concepts and layout options

- Small animations and even icon animations

- Both dark and light themes (general overtones)

- We talked about setting a choice way up high at the top level and altering other sub colors and settings based on the top level choices

- Education mode as a highlight - we may want to focus on this and figure out a way to capitalize on things. From our feedback, this seemed to be a highlight and an interest point.

- Help files and having the little side menu be dynamic and let the users decide to show/hide the help options

- We talked quite a bit about videos

- Jonathan was talking about having the help file side-by-side with the page that it is referencing. Being able to see the real page and the help file (tutorial or image) next to each other.

- Dealing with help files, we talked about all kinds of different types of media, visual, print, courses, etc.

- One of the main goal is... helping people to navigate the system. Some of that means hiding certain things, streamlining the flow and processes, and being able to get our users to navigate through the system.

- The onboarding process - that is a big key

- Russell and Jonathan were talking about user tests and user testing (what can they do by themselves and what do they need help with?).

- Lots of talk about removing the clutter

- Using the quick search and being able to search the systems for key words and then flagging and tagging the other navigation options for key word searching.

- MVP - Minimal Viable Product approach - keep it simple

- Jonathan really wants to get a requirements document setup. That would really help.

- Part of the conversation was dealing with getting both Jonathan and Russell together to get and share ideas

- There are two parts of the system that Russell really wants to help out with. They are the shopping cart and the media/content pieces.

- Light talks about making a single page interface for the cart and other pages and/or processes

- Preferences vs opinions - we are really trying to help educate and help out our clients. It is really hard to please everybody.

- Spending time to develop and explain the "why". That is how we help motivate and influence change.

See attached for a few screenshots from Russell.