This is the tweaked summary of this IRC chat.
We will focus on improving usability for new users.
There will be a usability BoF every day of the conference.
Schedule:
UX Sprint Day 1: Introduction and clearing of main issues
(see List below), probably together with Dries and Jeff Noyes
Wednesday, Aug 27, 4pm Cisco BoF room
(maybe everyone pick a task on end of Day 1)
UX Sprint Day 2: Forming of workgroups, working on tasks and discussion in small groups...
Thursday, Aug 28, 4pm Cisco BoF room
UX Sprint Day 3: Roundup, presentation of results, battle plans
Saturday, Aug 30, 1.30pm Sun BoF room
For presentations there is a Projector, as on the other days. Maybe our battle plans
include to meet up in Holland later in the year for another UX sprint?
From the list of issues as found in the two formal usability test we picked 4 topics that we want to work on:
1. Night of the Disappearing Help Page:
People lose the welcome/getting started page after creating a first post, desperately want it back.
- Make it stay/findable in some way
- Fix the clashing terminology on this page.
2. Where Did My Content Go?
Trouble locating content after creating it/can't listing it at all if user does not have the 'administer nodes' permission.
- Work on solving the technical issue?
- Minimal steps to solve this?
- Dive into the dashboard discussion for Drupal administration, admin theme confusion…
- "Where is my site?" - Separation between Admin and Frontend/site concepts (create a dedicated Admin Theme)
3. How to create structures for my content?
People have a hard time building out their site structure: menus, taxonomy, outline?, book?
- Catch and pwolanim are hosting a technical BoF on this as well.
- hierachical select module and other form widgets we might need.
- Create a default "getting started" content-structure for the default install profile?
- Make menu structure more intuitive
... August, 30th Result > Pitty that the 3 persons showing up at the second meeting, to start working on this had to conclude that their knowledge and experiences were incompatible. We concluded with us 3 that there was no ground for working further on this subject. A good conclusion in itself, still a pity, best regards Roel G. ...
4: The node/add form: Whoa!
Too much info at once, give users what they need up front
- Too much scrolling, task links are above the help text
- So yeah, how to get rid of those collapsible fieldsets again (is node form layouts the solution http://drupalmodules.com/module/node-form-layouts) ?
todo:
Group issues into the 4 topics above, add links: http://drupal.org/project/issues?projects=3060&components=usability&stat...
Battleplans for the HOW to do this. I hope we can get small teams working on each subject and iterate daily. We should not expect to work equally hard on each topic, we'll see what happens :-)
Let's keep this page as focussed on the above as possible and continue the discussion over here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/12972