Posted by yoroy on January 21, 2012 at 9:25am
Start:
2012-01-23 22:00 - 23:55 Europe/Amsterdam Event type:
Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)
Drop by in IRC in #drupal-usability and discuss current design projects. As always, contrib module authors are welcome to bring user interface questions. Bring screenshots or a demo site and we'll review.
Lets discuss http://groups.drupal.org/node/204213 too.
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Last edition, the question
Last edition, the question was asked "What is up with D8UX in terms of long term goals, what's the overview?"
Broad question, but necessary at times. Here's a rundown on the state of things.
5 areas to work in
This focusses on the first three.
Builder UX – Improve site builder tools
Boy, do we have our work carved out here. Bojhan presented on this at BadCamp: features come and go, the tools are here to stay. Together, we've laid out the
Setting up navigation: menus & menu items
http://groups.drupal.org/node/199938
Editor UX – Improve content creation, publishing and moderation tools
Drupal is a content management system, dammit. Make it better at creating, publishing and moderation content out of the box. Make creating the first "Hello world" post awesome.
Some tough nuts to crack here for editorial workflow features: revisions and states are hard problems.
But there are other, smaller yet impactful things we can do:
Short term projects
good list
Sounds sensible in scope, as being not overly ambitious in trying to fix everything. On my inner list I have content type and fields management. We were teased with form builder and its possibilities and enormous potential. But just too many things for too few people.
And - the modules page is way more important if I had to choose. People who get to create fields are way more up on the learning curve of death, but modules are in the face of everyone or more so should be.
Life is a journey, not a destination
User Profiles UI?
I'm not really sure what you guys are doing. I like the list. Drupal 7 made huge steps for usability, but the accounts/profile aspect in D7 core still seem pretty rough. Not sure if or where it fits in these lists but improved user profile editing pages and display would be a great thing...
Check out
Check out http://groups.drupal.org/node/204213, better account ux is definately a worthwhile exercise, please do :)
Thanks for passing this
Thanks for passing this along, yoroy!
UX Director, Bluespark
Think it makes sense to
Think it makes sense to assign an owner? An owner meaning someone in the UX community that does the following:
Personally speaking, I'm somewhat engaged on the Builder UX, so I would be happy to be the owner for this initiative. I've read most of the posts, have been chewing on ideas, as well as working with Dries' team a bit to get engaged. I've also been working with Seabourne (design/dev firm) to help them succeed with their page builder project - which could be groundwork for D8
Are we splitting this out
Are we splitting this out from the design initiative? I am not sure what the design initiative will be doing if it's not largely UX.