We've spent quite a bit of time trying to develop a framework to understand and frame the Drupal7 Audience in such a way as we can successfully design for them. We thought you might be interested in seeing some of our thinking to date, so we recorded a quick chat about it in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Al-0nUNARc
(I really should do my hair before videoing myself!)
As an overview, here is the outline of what we're thinking:
There are three important user attributes: role, type of site, and size/complexity of the user ecosystem(number of users in the system and no. of different roles defined).
Important roles:
- end user (define here)
- editor
- site builder
- site administrator
Important site types:
- blog
- news/publishing
- groups
- events
Important ecosystems
- single user
- 2-5 users
- 5-15 users
-more than 15 users
(need to work out a way to define number of user roles as well)
This is still very much work in progress and there is more thinking to be done - stay tuned. Meanwhile, I think we need to come up with a fancy word for our little audience prototype thingy.
[x-posted http://www.disambiguity.com/understanding-our-audience-part-1-drupal7-ux-project/]