Make the landing page for families who sign up but don't immediately have a study to take very friendly
- Dominant language
- Python
- Stars
- 12
- Forks
- 21
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Description
# TL;DR
Right now, a new family first sees the full set of studies, then has the disappointing experience of choosing a kid from the drop down menu and just seeing the below. We should change this, in prep for wider advertisement of the site.

# Narrative
As a brand new user, it's disappointing to not have a study to take right away! It's especially sad to see the big list of studies that disappears when I select the kid. Instead, I should get a friendly message telling me that I'll be emailed when there's a study available, and given something to click that *isn't* the old Children Helping Science platform!
# Acceptance Criteria
A precise description of how/when this issue will be considered closed, e.g.:
- [ ] Decide the new flow for new participants who haven't provided a kid with any studies yet (IE something other than the vanilla "Find a study" link we currently show)
- [ ] Draft new text (Melissa!) for the Search page that makes sense for the empty return view, while still making sense for people reading it above a list of actual studies!
- [ ] Implement changes to new-participant workflow
- [ ] Implement changes to Search page
# Implementation Notes
Leave important notes/suggestions here for implementation (important files, suggested approaches, etc.)
Contributor guide
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are identified in the issue, so start by locating the new-participant workflow and Search page implementation. Review the empty-study experience and the acceptance criteria; done means the flow and copy are decided, the new-participant workflow and Search page are updated, and the empty state provides a friendly email-notification message without the old platform link.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100