Polkassembly Product Improvement Proposal

This submission proposes new features on the Polkassembly platform. The product roadmap outlines the transition and development of Polkassembly platform to improve UX, enhance UI and add some features which will bring a lot of value to the users of the platform.

Product philosophy + Milestones/Features

Please find our Pitch deck here - Link

Note - The product roadmap is flexible when it comes to prioritizing feature development and timelines are subject to change based on community requirements for features but consistent efforts will be made to ensure that every quarter there are more tasks done than mentioned in the milestones.

Product plan

The product roadmap primarily focuses on 3 things-

Improve UI & UX of existing platform to ease governance discussions
Add new features like treasury analytics, parachains info, events calendar, etc..
Educate the community on Polkadot and substrate ecosystem and simplify the learning process for people moving from web2 -> web3(Tentative pipeline - Link)

Milestones

Additional features that are in development in this quarter include

Create treasury proposal from Polkassembly platform(enhanced UX)
Other features as requested by Council members, community and partner chains - Flexibility for adding more features beyond our defined roadmap will help Polkassembly become user’s go-to place for Governance and information on Polkadot ecosystem.
Merge sign-in/sign-up process
Improve website performance and load speed
Introduce an option to select network when signing in
Merge the treasury proposal creation process to provide a simplified UX to complete entire process on Polkassembly platform
Treasury analytics page - Detailed treasury spend and inflow with latest events
Personalized Notifications to stay updated on latest activity for a custom list of protocols
Introduce rewards & NFTs for contributing voters and participants
Make polkassembly live for multiple chains
Addition of child bounty support: Feb W3
Aggregation of data across multiple parachains: March W3
Increased focus on educational content and ecosystem updates: Feb W3
Experience Overhaul & Upgrade for the Product (Polkassembly)
Launch of updated Product Home: March W1
Launch of update for all Product pages: April W1
Enhanced landing page for each protocol. The protocol page will have the following information
Description of protocol
All relevant links - discord, twitter, github, reddit, youtube, etc
An option for protocol owners to add custom links would be created later
All relevant links - discord, twitter, github, reddit, youtube, etc
News & Events and activity feed for that protocol
Custom Calendar view for each protocol
Enhanced view for various tabs - Treasury, Bounty, Tips, etc.

Please find the mock design below along with the link to figma design file

Figma Design files for

Features Completed

Polkassembly Website & Social: Dec’21 to Present

Creation of a homepage for Polkassembly to build towards the vision of educating users about governance in the Polkadot ecosystem
Creation and development of social channels to increase the audience for governance discussions and build awareness

Multi-Sig & Proxy: Jan’22

Integration of the ability to add multi-sig and proxy on Polkassembly, adapting the platform based on community feedback

Moonbase Integration: Jan’22 to Feb’22

Launch and integration of feedback from the Moonbase team to bring the community to Polkassembly for Governance

Design & Experience changes: Jan’22

Improving experience on login, settings and navigation
Addition of error messaging

Dashboard view for independent parachains: Jan’22 to Present

Improving the experience for users by allowing them to view all on-chain activities in a dashboard view for each parachain
Viewing news, upcoming events, and much more as a part of the dashboard

Calendar Integration: Feb’22 to Present

Integration of an on-chain + off-chain calendar for events in the polkadot ecosystem in a parachain agnostic form
Allowing users to create events for greater visibility along with the option of adding events to their google/social calendar

Improving integration of Treasury functions: Jan’22 to Present

Visibility on treasury proposals along with stats from the treasury
Creation of treasury proposal from Polkassembly | The PRD and design is for Tips but the same would be used to develop it for Treasury Proposal
Design
Short PRD
Linking discussion post to treasury
Integration of treasury analytics

Tip calculation and threshold data:

Improved tips calculations and started showing proposer’s tip, expected tip and list of council members along with a status against each Jan’22

Total Proposal amount: 4690 DOT

Link to Proposal: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TRgHh5DJoVxlUUhCaaxV95ACcwCiErJ73ES6uAhji6o/edit?usp=sharing