This page contains the details of a technical writing project accepted for
Google Season of Docs.

### Project summary

Open source organization:
:   GDevelop

Technical writer:
:   David Turnbull

Project name:
:   Design the optimal learning experience for beginners

Project length:
:   Standard length (3 months)

### Project description

## Step 1: Perform a content audit

This means diving deep into the existing documentation and getting a broad understanding of how GDevelop works and what new users might find most captivating about it. I'll also follow the existing tutorials and note down any stumbling blocks I face.

## Step 2: Rewrite the ""Getting started"" guide

When a user reads the GDevelop documentation, their first stop is probably the ""Getting started"" guide, but the guide itself isn't that exciting --- it just talks about installing GDevelop, opening a project, etc. I'd like to rewrite this guide to have users accomplish something, even if that ""something"" is small (like adding an object to a game). I'd also like to provide clearer next steps, as the current guide provides a lot of links at the end of it, which may overwhelm users with the paradox of choice.

## Step 3: Improve the information architecture

The GDevelop documentation has some great content --- the tutorials in particular are really nice --- but that content is not necessarily surfaced in the best way possible. Using what I learn from the content audit, I'd like to investigate how the content and navigation can be reorganized so users find the content they need when they need it.

Other tasks/opportunities will surely come up during the project --- once I get started on a documentation project, I can't help but be consumed by it --- but I feel like these steps lay a strong foundation.