Embeddable cards for Juju

Juju is a cloud orchestration tool with a lot of unique terminology. This is not so much of a problem when discussing or explaining terms or features within the site or the GUI, but, when it comes to external sources, the context is sometimes lost and everything can start to get a little confusing.

So a project was started to create embeddable widgets of information to not only give context to blog posts mentioning features of Juju, but also to help user adoption by providing direct access to the information on jujucharms.com.

This project was started by Anthony Dillon, one of the developers, to create embeddable information cards for three topics in particular. Charms, bundles and user profiles. These cards would function similarly to embedded YouTube videos, or embedding a song from Soundcloud on your own site as seen bellow:

Multiple breakpoints of the cards were established (small, 300px and below. medium: 301px to 625px and large: 626px and up) so that they would work responsively and therefore work in a breadth of different situations and compliment the user’s content referring to a charm, bundle or a user profile without any additional effort for the user.

We started the process by determining what information we would want to include within the card and then refining that information as we went through the different breakpoints. Here are some of the initial ideas that we put together:

We wrote down all the information there could be related to each type of card and then discussed how that might carry down to smaller card sizes and removed the unnecessary information as we went through the process. For the profile cards, we felt there was not enough information to display a profile card above 625px break point so we limited the card to the medium size.

Just enter the bundle or the charm name and the card will be generated for you to copy the code snippet to embed into your own content.

You can create your own here: http://www.jujugui.org/community/cards

Below are some examples of the responsive cards are different widths: