Our goal is to drastically improve the user experience of Drupal 7. We'd like you to get involved.
Welcome, how nice of you to drop by! Post a comment, say hi, see who else is about. Let us know what you'd like to do here so we can help you do it!
Get started with Drupal 7 UX
- D7UX microprojects! It's the new thing especially for you to get involved in Drupal 7 UX design.
- D7 UX project framework
- UX issue queue proposed changes to Drupal that need your review
- Say hi in IRC, #drupal-usability on freenode.net
There is quite a lot of work that needs doing and many ways you can contribute. It's challenging, fun and not as scary as you might think! Also, it will give you valuable experience in working the open source process and maybe even that warm fuzzy feeling of getting your contribution committed to the actual Drupal software.
People to look for and where to find them
bojhan, yoroy and webchick are some of the names you want to look for if you have questions about all of this. The team is certainly bigger than that but these folks generally know what's up. Feel free to contact them. The easiest way to find us is to join the Drupal group chats on IRC. We're in #drupal-usability on irc.freenode.net, here's the info on how to get on there and here's even more
But yeah, start with saying hi in the comments! :-)
Hello
I'm new here, but I've been using Drupal for a couple of years to one extent or another. I do web design and accessibility work for both business and government sites. I still do static HTML and other CMS products, but I've been pushing Drupal fairly hard for the last year or so.
Most of my clients have high accessibility requirements, both for the anonymous user and for admin sections, so Drupal's ability to style the admin interface has been a huge plus.
Hi DouglasT and welcome!
Hi DouglasT and welcome! It's always interesting to hear what people do to the default Drupal admin interface to make it work for them. Be sure to have a look at the topics in the D7UX framework, accessability itself is one of them: http://www.d7ux.org/accessibility/ Any specific things-I-always-do to make the Drupal admin pages work for you?
It's still early days for http://www.d7ux.org/microprojects/ but if you have that nagging feeling you might want to contribute somehow somewhere, go signup there :-)
See you around!
hi :)
popping in to say hi!
I'm working with Mark Boulton on the D7UX project (please come get involved!)
relatively new to Drupal but a bit of an old hand at UX and have worked on design & usability for a few content management platforms over the years.
never one with such a great community tho - although the more of us UX people the better!
i also just want to encourage those of you who aren't usually into IRC to give it a go!
yes, it is terrifically dorky, but it's where all the action is going on and if you do want to get involved in the community you really do need to be there.
I'm on a Mac and use Colloquy which was relatively painless to get set up. Don't be shy to ask questions about how to get it up and running - I don't think anyone should be expected to have a good working knowledge of IRC unless they are old school developers :)
leisa reichelt - disambiguity.com
user experience consultant (design research and user centred design)
working with Mark Boulton Design on the drupal.org redesign project
Hi
I'm new to the usability group. I'm interested learning about cool projects that I may contribute to (I'm signing up for http://www.d7ux.org/microprojects/). I have some experience with Drupal (mainly evaluating it against other systems) and I'm currently studying Human-Computer Interactions. I look forward to helping out.
Hi Folks
I'm new to Drupal also, hoping to use the platform to redo my organization's website. In development now. I'm using Drupal and CiviCRM. Any improvements to Drupal's usability are welcome as many of my users would not be considered power users.
Though pretty new, I think
Though pretty new, I think you could include a little more about Drupal 7 UX. Yes, your article gives a better overview of it, but still, to get started is that all we need? There must be much more. I would like to see more articles from you in future, as you presented the matter pretty clearly.
Who are you refering to with
Who are you refering to with 'you'? :-) I agree that we should work on more 'getting started' materials. Anything specific you have in mind?
Hello.
I'm a designer and I've been building, using and designing Drupal sites since version 4.5 (back in 2004). (Anyone else remember Flexinode?)
Anyway, I've always wanted to be able to contribute back to the community outside of helping others with design, CSS, markup, site config, etc., but haven't had the outlet for it like the developers do. I would love to give back in the capacity of design and usability.
By the way, I'm vnotion on IRC.
If you can review code, see issue 558928
The latest proposed patch cleans up a lot of haphazard code, makes Drupal forms far more accessible, and in doing so is a major step toward improving the usability of D7. After all, D7 isn't yet usable if your use case is "must be completely accessible."
A small group — most notably, mgifford, Everett Zufelt, and brandonojc — have been working hard on this patch. It is (or is very close to being) ready to be tagged RTBC (reviewed by the community/ready to be committed [to core]). They could use help. If you can offer it, check Issue 558928: Form element labeling is inconsistent, inflexible and bad for accessibility.
Thanks!
Cliff