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Looking for speakers to present a 'Help Drupal Help' session @Szeged Drupalcon

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Submitted by yoroy on Mon, 2008-07-07 20:22

The Help GSOC project and the general effort to improve Drupal's Help system are an important part of improving the Drupal user experience.

I'm looking for people who could help produce a session on 'Help' in Drupal. This is a rough sketch for how a session proposal might look:

Help Drupal Help

Overview
Improving the Drupal UX through better copywriting and smarter Help features.

Agenda

  • Usability issues found in the usability tests: inconsistent terminology, too much inline help, losing form data/context when clicking help.
  • Presentation of the GSOC Help project / Advanced help module /
  • Best practices for copywriting the Drupal user interface: How to write effective titles, labels and descriptions for forms.
  • Hopefully present progress on the improved welcome message/getting started guide on succesfull installation
  • Calls to action: remove inconsistencies, simplefy existing descriptions, let's build a glossary?
  • …Anything else?

Goal
Improving the Drupal UX through better copywriting and smarter Help features.

Any suggestions and ideally people stepping up to make this happen more then welcome. Comment or contact me! Thanks.

Groups:
Help system
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Gurpartap Singh - Tue, 2008-08-12 22:49

I won't be able to attend the DrupalCon due to my studies and other important date conflicting.

Nor would Dmitri be able to make it there. Someone else would have to take the task of presenting the module on his/her shoulders.


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