User experience

I run a group of tech entrepreneurs called Ultra Light Startups (http://ultralightstartups.com/) and I'm interested in the use of Drupal in startups for several reasons. Many of our members' startups are either already built on Drupal or they are evaluating use of Drupal for a project. Several of our members are also active in the NYC Drupal community. Also, after hosting an event on Open Source CMS's last fall, I became convinced that Drupal was the right platform for several of my own projects, including a planned major upgrade to the Ultra Light Startups site.

Buzzr.com, a partnership with Lullabot, is now hiring full-time or part-time Drupal Ninjas as freelancers. For more about Buzzr, please read Jeff Robbin's post at: http://www.lullabot.com/articles/buzzr-demo-video-making-drupal-usable For advance praise of Buzzr's new user interface that sits on top of Drupal, please see: http://bit.ly/Egled Front and back end developers. Rock stars/ninjas only. Submit resumes to Ed@lullabot.com

We've just added a new video to the YouTube Channel which we refer to in this post - check it out now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShBPEL_ckJw

Over the past week or so Mark and I have been working out the details that go on the panels of the Audience Matrix that we shared with you last week (http://www.disambiguity.com/understanding-our-audience-part-1-drupal7-ux...) (or dress-up-doll document as it has otherwise been named). We’ve made a few changes and added a bunch of definitions.

Here’s what we’ve come up with so far:

ROLES:

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:

You may have heard the excellent and very exciting news that following on from our work on Drupal.org, Mark Boulton Design has been contracted to take a look at the User Experience for the upcoming Drupal 7, and I'm very happy to be working with him on this project as well.

Is anyone aware of a good guide for creative agencies with regard to creating user interfaces/web site designs that are easly implemented with drupal?

I put this screencast together that outlines some possible resolutions to the problems identified usability testing. The screencast picks up some of the latest design work put forward by many of you (admin interface, input formats, revealing admin nodes, etc). In most cases I built on top of your work.

What do you think?

http://www.jeffnoyes.com/content/drupal-6-usability-improvements-part-1

Job Location
Accra/Telecommute

Motivation
We are working in several problem domains and you have an opportunity to make a high impact because our team is still small.
Our projects include working on hard problems in disparate domains to create and improve the technologies for

* manipulating African language text using open source technologies (spellchecking and grammar checking)
* publishing different genres of structured content on the Web
* syndicating e-commerce shops across many websites and platforms such as facebook and OpenSocial