Where'd content go, admin interface changes, and seperation between admin outside world

Thanks Jeff, a nice summary of some possible solutions.

I'm not sure about having all the sections on the admin page collapsed by default - I'd like to at least see them expanded if the descriptions are hidden. Otherwise, every link requires an extra click.

Also, we can currently have 2 themes - I guess the suggestion here is to have a different admin theme by default? Another possibility would be to allow a single theme to have separate settings for the admin and non-admin sections. e.g. Garland could have different colors when in the admin section.

Finally - moving the action button to the bottom of the content list might be a nice step. I'm not sure that I was convinced that an extra link at the top of the page is the right step to the "disappearing content" problem. When not put the link in the message? Or make that item always expanded in the menu?

um, in terms of usability that page is not very usable. i still use a 1024/768 screen and that vid is way too big.

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I think there is a lot to like here. The organization seems to be better than the current one -- and would address various of the usability issues raised by the usability studies.

Thanks Jeff, it's good to see all this stuff in one place, since I haven't been keeping up with the Drupal 7 usability work anywhere near as much as I'd like to!

Everything looks really nice to me, but the one thing I found a little confusing was the "Preview" button, for two reasons. First, Drupal usually uses the word "preview" to mean something else (preview a piece of content before it's been saved to the database), and second because it wasn't clear from whose point of view you are previewing it (it was only clear after you clicked on it because the user login block was active, but if not then it still would have been unclear).

I would suggest something along the lines of "View this page as an anonymous user", maybe? (Which then also has the advantage that it is easy to extend to other user roles later on.)

I like the organization into smaller information chunks very much. You only see as much as you can grasp in one glance. Made som things bigger, some smaller - off you go!
Especially interesting is you didn't even had to reorganize everything completely - just put an order into it that makes more sense.

Is this completly funtional? Would be great to put this through some user testing. And even better if it coult be put into a module for everyone to check out.

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If you coult push anything to a working state, this would be great. As experience shows, these things need quite some iterations and also something to touch. Everything that has real physical existence appears to be reviewed in a much more positive way than if it were "just" a concept.

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