Usability

After much work, study and research and testing, the Spark team has arrived at the latest iteration on edit-in-place. We think is a big improvement on the interaction pattern, but we want feedback from the usability group before we push it to the issue.

The prototype is currently in Invision and can be viewed here: http://invis.io/FVB89STC *

Since I posted the invision above Prestonso and I have built an HTML version also which is more up-to-date with design and demonstrates the interactions with some fancy javascript. It's here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g6mcyc6gbj7ty10/SGZ5vgtD2A

UX hours 4 March 2013

Back to bi-weekly

We moved to a weekly meetup during feature-complete frenzy. With momentum in the queues a good bit slower now we're in feature freeze, we're moving back to a bi-weekly schedule. Next UX open hours: March 18.

Make blocks shippable

Blocks UI needs some serious work. Meta issue: http://drupal.org/node/1875252
Kevin will post an updated prototype soon. Lisarex suggested to sprint on this during global sprint day. It's certainly an interesting piece to work on and really try and get in a better shape than it is now.

Novice UX tasks

Hey guys i'm being bold here. But i couldn't figure out where to add D8 feature request so i thought i gave it a shot here.

I was wondering if what the pro's and con's are of making forms more entity'ish..

Why not make "all" the forms based on this form.entity type. Adding field (and thus widgets) would be a breeze (from a UI perspective). In core there are a few "fixed" forms like:
- the login form
- the contact form
- the password forget form
- the comments form
- the modules forms (like rating of add to cart)
- e.t.c.

This discussion seeks to expand on existing discussions and activities to define guidelines for the Human Interface of Drupal 8.x

The genesis of this discussion is an observation that the current User Interface Standards don't provide any guidance on this subject.

It appears there are a couple of new use cases for icons within the Drupal UI related to the following;

• Dialog Boxes
• Toolbar Module
• Overlay

I believe we can expand on the existing documentation and provide core developers and UI designers with important standards.

• Spark release alpha7 this week with unified editing patch. Removes overlay but for contextual links. http://drupal.org/project/spark
• WYSIWYG patch scope is agreed on, needs review: http://drupal.org/node/1890502

Content creation page, Swentel updates

Progressing nicely. Expecting some more commits in the right direction this week

• http://drupal.org/node/1510544, needs final reviews
• Working on http://drupal.org/node/1838156
• Also lots of progress on real live preview functionality: http://drupal.org/node/1510544

Focus of the study

To understand the following:

• Current Pain Points with Drupal
• Feedback on Spark
• End to end process of content creation process
• Applications used in conjunction with Drupal

Participant profile

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One of the key things I wanted to do in the Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative after the December 1st feature freeze hits is to go and do lots of user testing of the functionalities we built and adapt the user interfaces and flows to make it easier to build multilingual sites (and then test it again). Not many people believed this would actually happen (when you say in an issue you'll follow up with more user testing, and so on, it can be seen as just a way out to move on). However I've got outstanding help from Bojhan Somers, Dharmesh Mistry and Lisa Rex on best practices for user testing. I not only got help on the tools to use, but also building out a concrete test plan with Dharmesh and Bojhan actively involved. To say the test was well prepared is an understatement.