Did a bit of User Experience testing on some #Mastodon #Fediverse printable materials. (thanks to @davidrevoy for the beautiful images)
So far, it's a 100% fail.
Users can not be linked from printable materials to an installable App which they can sign up to a local instance. i.e. If you run an instance and want to hand out invites at the farmers market, no one will be able to easily navigate the app store, the sign up process. There is context breakage.
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There are two possible designs that might work. Either get Tusky, Mastodon App, Ivory or whatever to be skinable and re-submit them to the app stores for every instance that wants to publicise themselves widely. (quite a heavy ask).
Or pass data about a specific instance /to/ the app store and through that into the app.
I would also have a standard branding package hosted on the instance so apps can lookup and reskin as needed.
This assumes it's possible to pass data in links this way.
One for app ( you need multiple anyway due to different phone[0] platforms ) and one for the desired instance?
[0] To those who bristled at implication that phone is the only platform: Yeah, I agree there's more than phone :), but that's likely what people giving out cards are going to market for and I understand that
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