Usability

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WYSIWYM (what you see is what you mean) BOF in Portland

Start: 
2013-05-22 01:00 - 05:00 America/Los_Angeles
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Background

The movement towards semantic data

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May 2013 DrupalCape Meet-Up - UX Unplugged

Start: 
2013-05-29 18:00 - 20:00 Africa/Johannesburg
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Its been a while and we have missed you. We have had 4 rather cosy meetings so far this year, and with the winter coming on we thought that a little more body heat would be good. Soooo, come and join us!!

This meeting format will take the form of a presentation and then a workshop in which we take a look at two sites which Marco will select, one good, and one bad.

Please take a look at the Eventbrite page here http://www.eventbrite.com/event/6730000613 to find out more about the meeting and also to book a seat :).

An alternative approach to overlay in Drupal 8

Terms

Primary Object: anything the user begins editing directly from a menu or list page.

Secondary Object: anything the user begins editing from within the task flow of editing a primary object.

The question the experienced Drupalist is already asking is “well, in some contexts an entity is a primary object and in others same entity is a secondary object, won’t this confuse the user?”. Possibly, but I suspect it will clarify rather than confuse because it keeps the user anchored on the primary task.

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Review of the usability of Overlay in Drupal 8

Over the past months as we worked to improve the user experience for content authors in D8 by simplifying the way users perform the most basic tasks in Drupal an issue that has repeatedly arisen is the overlay module. There has always been some debate about it’s value—and given that changes are already necessary to integrate with new core functionality—this is a good time to drill in and re-assess how overlay is working and see if we can improve it. To set the context here are a few of our observations:

Positives:

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Prototype of updates to edit-in-place

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

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Frontend United London - 2013

Start: 
2013-04-13 (All day) - 2013-04-14 (All day) Europe/London

Frontend United, formerly known as Drupal Design Camp, is a yearly European conference that moves from country to country. Its aim is to bring front-end developers, designers and Drupal themers from all kinds of backgrounds closer together and share knowledge, experiences and ideas face-to-face.

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Taoti needs another Drupal developer. $80-110K (plus bagels and boat rides) | Taoti Creative

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Full time
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Not allowed

Taoti needs another Drupal developer. $80-100K (plus bagels and boat rides)

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UX/UI in Drupal 8 - some thoughts

Hi Guys,

Hope this is the right place to post some thoughts on UX/I in Drupal 8.

If not, please point me in the right direction. Thanks.

Views
(Not a huge issue for us who understand views, but might help some newbies):

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yoroy's picture

Meeting notes UX Happy hour March 4, 2013

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

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UX Happy Hour Meeting Notes: Feb 25

We had our weekly UX happy hour on Feb 25, 2013 from 4 pm to 5 pm (EST) on #drupal-usability

The meeting was attended by: bojhan, dcmistry, koleary, jbeach, tvn, yoroy

Points of discussion:
- How can the contributors contribute to the UX project?
o Bojhan and Dcmistry to work on documentation
o Koleary to kick-off discussion on adding contributions to the profile page for non-tech guys: designers/ ux researchers/ project managers/marketing, etc.
- Make the block plugin UI shippable

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Entity forms

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.

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Proposal: A Style Guide for Seven

Motivation and Principles

At this point in the Drupal 8 development cycle many additions and changes have been made to Drupal’s administrative user interface, and more will be required as new features are completed. The existing changes have been completed in relative isolation from each other. Although each change and addition has been a step in the right direction, the result is a UI that lacks consistency.

This is largely for lack of a guidebook for Drupal’s admin UI. Even though great, coherent UX work was done for Drupal 7, and we have functional UI standards, there remains no central guide for the visual conventions used in Drupal’s core admin theme, Seven. We need something to help us maintain visual consistency when changing and extending the UI. We need a style guide for Drupal’s default admin theme.

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D8 Core Style Guide (Icons)

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.

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UX meeting in IRC, 28 january

Start: 
2013-01-28 22:00 - 23:00 Europe/Amsterdam
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Weekly status update around UX efforts on core. Feature complete phase is ending soon! Bring your topics…

We'll meet in IRC in #drupal-usability

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Notes from UX team meeting in IRC, 21 januari 2013

Content creation page, Swentel updates

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

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Unified approach to edit, contextual links, and overlay

Problem

“As a content author I want to make a quick change to a block on a page I am editing without having to wade through many levels of navigation or a sea of options.”

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Spark Focus Group Findings

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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  • 8 Drupal admins/ webmasters/ site builders/ themers who have professional experience (or interest) in user experience, user interface design, or web design at Stanford
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    UX open hours, dec. 10 2012

    UX open hours, 10 december 2012

    Small meeting this time.

    Content creation page

    http://drupal.org/node/1838156 and http://drupal.org/node/1838114 need help. Everybody wants to see this new interface make it into Drupal 8. Now's the time to make it so! Background and more related issues to push forward in http://drupal.org/node/1510532#comment-6757500

    Edit-in-place (all the things)

    Kevin has been working on a prototyping on a unified approach for edit in place: http://invis.io/7H9SAI8N . Not in the issue queue yet, but a very promising concept, have a look!

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    First Drupal 8 multilingual user testing results

    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.

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    Live Webinar: Taking Drupal Cross-platform

    10 things you need to know to optimize a Drupal website for any device or platform.

    When:
    January 10th
    North America – 2PM EST. Register Here
    EMEA – 3PM GMT. Register Here

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