Kiva's New Look

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[Dottie b]

Aaaggghhh!

I see Kiva has done some redesigning!

On the plus side, the pages seem to load a lot faster!

But I don't like the new typefaces. The bold names look sloppy, and I can't begin to read the very light typeface with the description.

Dottie B

[RichardF]

The LEND page is starting to take on a touch of Kiva Bankishness.  For example, the check boxes are a step in the right direction toward more customizing of which loans you want to see!

Thanks, Kiva! 

[Ali]

Hi everyone!

I'm Ali Carroll, Kiva's Customer Service Coordinator, and I just wanted to give you all a full list of the changes that have been made on Kiva recently.

- Rich profiles on the lender pages of Kiva Fellows (and alum) including links to their Kiva Fellows blogs (http://www.kiva.org/lender/andrew1107)
- Lenders finally have an easy statistic that tells them their Outstanding Loans in their portfolios
- Graphs were added to lender profiles and to the My Portfolio page  (http://www.kiva.org/lender/matt , scroll down to Portfolio Distribution)
- The lend tab search/filter was made better and faster (http://www.kiva.org/lend)

If you have questions or feedback about these changes, please let us know!

Ali

[YowieFreak]

- Graphs were added to lender profiles and to the My Portfolio page  (http://www.kiva.org/lender/matt , scroll down to Portfolio Distribution)

Hmmm,  my graph for "Partner" seems to show a grey area - which is about 5% of the graph - with no info in it.

Rounding errors?

[Diane R]

Hi Ali, thanks for the info.

I would very much like, somewhere in My Portfolio or on my lender page, to be able to see the now-missing list of countries I've lent to and the percentage of my portfolio lent there.  Now, with the pie chart, there is nothing but a white blur at the "low end" which cannot be disambiguated, and it's not possible to determine whether I have any loans in any particular countries which might be onesies-twosies, and which countries I might want to watch for, to add to my portfolio.

EDIT: Right, and also what Ian said above.  I have an indistinguishable/blank grey area also.

--Diane.

[Dottie b]

There's an annoying glitch - If, for example, I sort by Expiring Soon, then click on an entrepreneur, and then use the back arrow to return, I am not taken back to the Expiring Soon page, but to Popularity! That is not good.

Dottie B

[YowieFreak]

There's an annoying glitch - If, for example, I sort by Expiring Soon, then click on an entrepreneur, and then use the back arrow to return, I am not taken back to the Expiring Soon page, but to Popularity! That is not good.

It's even annoying for people who only use "Popularity" as their sort order (not that any sane person would use "Popularity" as their sort order!) because it always takes you back to page one of the "Popularity" sort.


(How long before Kiva gets some beta-testers? )

[Peter S]

it's not possible to determine whether I have any loans in any particular countries

there's a crude workaround for that which involves looking at the source code for one's public Kiva lender page, and scrolling down to the section quite near the end where the charts are built & displayed.

google.load("visualization", "1", {packages:["corechart"]});
google.setOnLoadCallback(draw_PieChart_4c46170e4bca8);
function draw_PieChart_4c46170e4bca8() {
var data = new google.visualization.DataTable();
data.addColumn('string','ooblab');
data.addColumn('number','country');
data.addRows(55);data.setValue(0,0,'Peru');
data.setValue(0,1,14.47);
data.setValue(1,0,'Bolivia');
data.setValue(1,1,13.82);
data.setValue(2,0,'Tajikistan');
data.setValue(2,1,8.96);
data.setValue(3,0,'Paraguay');
data.setValue(3,1,7.81);
data.setValue(4,0,'Cambodia');
data.setValue(4,1,5.1);
data.setValue(5,0,'Uganda');
data.setValue(5,1,5.02);
. . .  [etc , for whatever total number of countries.]

the last number in each set (the number with the decimal point) looks like the portfolio's percentage of loans to that particular country.

Oh well, I think my collection of Kiva countries was complete, anyway.

P

[Dottie b]

It's even annoying for people who only use "Popularity" as their sort order (not that any sane person would use "Popularity" as their sort order!) because it always takes you back to page one of the "Popularity" sort.

You don't even have to be on an entrepreneur page. If you're on page 2 of the Amount Left sort, the back button takes you to page 1 of Popularity!

[Diane R]

FYI, if you prefer the previous version, you can click on the itty bitty  Older version  link in the upper right of the main page and return to the previous look/design ("lend-classic").


--Diane.