This site is the project website of the Coronamelder app by the Dutch Ministry of Health at www.coronamelder.nl.
- Status: published
- Target audience: the general public
Please join the Slack channel and check out the kanban board for the latest status.
- UX design in Figma
- To do kanban board
- Latest HTML implementation
- Discuss this website via the Code for NL Slack Channel notificatie-app-website (join Slack workspace here)
- Also see the Community website that is aimed specifically at (potential) community members.
Before the app is finished, the main goal is to inform visitors:
- Goal 1: Provide a clear overview of which areas the team is working on / what the project status is.
- Goal 2: Eliminate common misunderstandings such as:
- "The app will be launched no matter what, the government is ignoring all the pitfalls!" --> No, we're investigating and building concurrently
- "The government can access my contacts and track me all day" --> No, everything stays on your phone, the government can never technically access it. This is different for central solutions, but in NL we opted for a decentralized approach.
- "The screens look as if they are finished, the app will be launched tomorrow!" --> No, we are still investigating many things.
- Goal 3: What will the app do? What is it? Why is an app necessary?
- Goal 4: Make it clear that this is partly a community driven project. Everyone is allowed to contribute, criticize, etc.
- Goal 5: Be transparant in our approach
- Goal 6: Communicate clearly when the government will decide whether to actually roll out the app after it has been finished.
After the app is finished a new goal is added:
- Goal 7: convince people to download and use the app
There is a nice story to be told about how the website was created. It all started with a high-level traffic light dashboard idea to indicate the status of the project. This idea was adopted by the community, that let this project evolve (via Github and Slack) from the traffic dashboard to what is now the project website-to-be. The whole process can be followed via Channel notificatie-app-website (join Slack workspace here). Please ping any of the people involved via Slack if you are interested in writing an article about this.
Shout out to all volunteers that helped out, among which: Harrie Kuipers (project lead), Paul Wagener (initial HTML implementation), Benjamin W. Broersma (tech lead, HTML implementation of the version 0.6 design, translatable templates via markdown), Anouschka Scholten (UX research questionnaire among 500+ people), Arian van van Putten (helped out with Github issues and useful comments) and Bart Lenstra (designs in Figma). Also involved were Laura Engelshove, Cas Zeegers, Nelleke Harmse, Ruben Vandenbussche, Ruben Ahuluheluw, Joost Soeterbroek.
Harrie, Bart, Cas and Laura have later been asked to finish the project on a paid basis.