Create a Guide/Template: Building a Brand Book through Team Exercises

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

Overview

We need to create a guide for Brand Book so that teams can have consistent messaging for their project

Action Items

The phases in the guide-making process are listed below. Each phase displayed in blue is linked to a wiki page with instructions on how to complete that phase. Open the wiki page in a new tab, copy the instructions for each part into the section labeled 'Tasks' at the bottom of this issue, and complete each task listed.

• Gather Examples Solo (open in a new tab)
• Gather Examples Collaboratively
• Create a Guide Draft
  • If needed, create a template
• Have your guide peer reviewed
• Present your guide for leadership review

Resources/Instructions

• GreenEarthOS
  • All issues related to their branding exercise
  • Figma file where branding exercise is

Resources

• Google Drive Folder for this Guide’s documents and shortcuts (to documents in other locations) 0089 Building a Brand Book through Team Exercises
• Update issue Tracker: Templates & Guides #97 with the name of item you are working on

Projects to check

• 100 Automations
• 311 Data
• Access the Data
• BallotNav
• Brigade Organizer's Playbook
• Civic Tech Index
• Civic Tech Jobs
• Civic Tech Structure
• Data Science Projects
• Design Systems
• Engage
• Expunge-Assist (formerly known as Record Clearance)
• Food Oasis
• GreenEarthOS
  • All issues related to their branding exercise
  • Figma file where branding exercise is

Screenshot of brand exercise

• Guides
• HomeUniteUs
• Internship project
  • logo, color pallet , typography, branding initial work internship#68 (started with this issue)
  • Create Brand Values internship#95 (epic for team contribution)
  • Branding Exercise: Rabia Shaikh internship#81 (sample issue that should have been broken down into multiple issues)
  • Refine the mission statement internship#99
  • [draft] Google search our brand attributes and taglines- to see results. internship#98
  • Review usecases for the project internship#97
  • UserTesting for our two domain names for the Internship Project internship#96
  • Design System: Create logo internship#28
• Lucky Parking
• Open Community Survey
• TDM Calculator
• VRMS
• Hack for LA's Website
• Youth Justice Nav

Examples from projects both inside and outside HfLA

Taglines

Feeding America- A hunger-free America
Make-A-Wish: That people everywhere will share the power of a wish
Habitat for Humanity: A world where everyone has a decent place to live
Airbnb- “Belong Anywhere.”
HfLA Internship Project: Where Learning STEMS from Doing

This guide links

• Brand Book folder
• This is where you will copy instructions from the wiki page for the step you are currently on.

Tasks

[Nat-nn]

Meeting notes @sanya301 What is the best way to structure documents?

[sanya301]

@Nat-nn Add them to our Google drive and put a link in your issue

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

@Nat-nn let's talk about this at the next GreenEarthOS meeting. I think we have enough examples now to get started making this guide.

[JesseTheCleric]

Prior version of issue

Overview

We need to create a guide for Brand Book so that teams can have consistent messaging for their project

Action Items

• Gather examples of how other Hack for LA projects or volunteers have done this (if applicable), adding each example as a link in the resources section below
  • If the guidance you received from the teams that have done this practice was not sufficient, remove the "Guide: Gather Examples" label and add the "Guide: Research" label
• Research existing information about [name of item] in [relevant resources, articles, etc.]
  • Once done, evaluate if the guide requires a template. If it does then
  • if yes, remove the "Guide: Research" label and add the "Guide: Draft Template" label
    • Create a draft template
      • Once done, remove the "Guide: Draft Template" label and add the "Guide: Draft Guide" label
  • if no, remove the "Guide: Research" label and add the "Guide: Draft Guide" label
    Create a draft guide, either in markdown format in this issue or a google doc in the ux/ui google drive
  • Once done, remove the "Guide: Draft Guide" label and add the "Guide: Needs Peer Review" label
• Review the guide with UX/UI community of practice
  • Once done, remove the "Guide: Needs Peer Review" label and add the "Guide: Leadership Review" label
• Present to the Hack for LA leadership team for sign off
  • Once approved, remove the "Guide: Leadership Review" label and add the "Guide: ready publication" label

Resources

Update issue #97 with the name of item you are working on

Projects to check

• 100 Automations
• 311 Data
• Access the Data
• BallotNav
• Brigade Organizer's Playbook
• Civic Tech Index
• Civic Tech Jobs
• Civic Tech Structure
• Data Science Projects
• Design Systems
• Engage
• Expunge-Assist (formerly known as Record Clearance)
• Food Oasis
• GreenEarthOS
  • All issues related to their branding exercise
  • Figma file where branding exercise is

Screenshot of brand exercise

• Guides
• HomeUniteUs
• Internship project
  • logo, color pallet , typography, branding initial work internship#68 (started with this issue)
  • Create Brand Values internship#95 (epic for team contribution)
  • Branding Exercise: Rabia Shaikh internship#81 (sample issue that should have been broken down into multiple issues)
  • Refine the mission statement internship#99
  • [draft] Google search our brand attributes and taglines- to see results. internship#98
  • Review usecases for the project internship#97
  • UserTesting for our two domain names for the Internship Project internship#96
  • Design System: Create logo internship#28
• Lucky Parking
• Open Community Survey
• TDM Calculator
• VRMS
• Hack for LA's Website
• Youth Justice Nav

Examples from projects both inside and outside HfLA

Taglines

Feeding America- A hunger-free America
Make-A-Wish: That people everywhere will share the power of a wish
Habitat for Humanity: A world where everyone has a decent place to live
Airbnb- “Belong Anywhere.”
HfLA Internship Project: Where Learning STEMS from Doing

This guide links

• Brand Book folder

[JesseTheCleric]

Assignee, Labels, Project Board Placement, and Milestones for this issue in the UI/UX Repo:

[JesseTheCleric]

Files in this Issue:

Brand Book folder

• This file will need to be moved to the knowledgebase-content Google Drive
• File was moved to knowledgebase-content Google Drive

[ExperimentsInHonesty]

UI/UX cop folder access granted