Usability
This group is for working on usability in Drupal. Join to collaborate with other community members who have an interest in making Drupal easier to use.
Our goal is to drastically improve the user experience of Drupal 7. We'd like you to get involved.
Welcome, how nice of you to drop by! Post a comment, say hi, see who else is about. Let us know what you'd like to do here so we can help you do it!
Get started with Drupal 7 UX
- D7UX microprojects! It's the new thing especially for you to get involved in Drupal 7 UX design.
- D7 UX project framework
- UX issue queue proposed changes to Drupal that need your review
- Say hi in IRC, #drupal-usability on freenode.net
User
We would like a "quick" way to change a user's "Status" from "Blocked" to "Active." Right now it takes about 3-4 clicks, and then save the User edit form after selecting the "Active" radio button.
When there are dozens of users, this can be tedious. The website client doesn't want users to be "Active" until after careful review...
Project Supervisor | Zun Zone
This is my second post for a Project Supervisor.
We are looking for a person to act as the Project Supervisor for a large scale project. The Project Supervisor will need to help design, website, estimate requirements, budgets, and manage the construction of the Project. Must have experience with large scale projects and be able to manage several teams.
Project Supervisor | Zun Zone
We want to hire a Project Supervisor (the Super) to oversee all aspects of construction of our Project. The Super will be responsible for the Projects development, quality and completion on time and on budget.
Project Supervisor Job Description and Duties
We are looking for the Supervisor with experience in large projects; he/she must have superior knowledge of Drupal and database driven sites, and experience managing several Drupal development teams.
Looking for a rating system and contractor
I am looking for any Drupal community site that has a multi-question rating system. Actually, I’m looking for Contractors who have built Drupal communities with multi-question rating systems.
We want to build a Drupal community where the members rate or evaluate services. Not a simple voting plugin where we can only ask one question, but a series of questions. We need to be able to ask several questions and our members will be able to give a numerical value (1-10) AND have the option to comment on each question.
Keyboard Navigation - Resources & Best Practices
Following the suggestion at Accessibility improvements for vertical tabs here's a page to collect some of the scattered information on keyboard navigation.
Find a Better Name for "skip-navigation" Class
We need to come up with a good name for a CSS class, but I don't want this discussion to clutter up the issue queue. (Let's reserve the queue for presenting and discussing patches that fix functional or programmatic problems.) So I'm posting this item to see if we can develop an idea that is better than the ones we've already come up with.
Monster Media Sprint!
Fellow Media Moguls,
We're shaking off the dust from the Media module, which was sadly neglected during the heady Summer of Code, where we got Stream Wrappers into core! I'm excited to meet now with my fellow Drupalistas, and get the module presentable for Drupal 7 (and Drupal 6, if anyone is interested in helping on that front).
A compatability layer for Drupal
I've transferred this discussion from the forums at http://drupal.org/node/572734, where it had died a death. Here's what I wrote there. Any thoughts?
Following all of the stuff at Drupalcon Paris about Drupal moving from a service to a product that is friendly for end users, I was having a discussion with a friend of mine who has used Drupal in the past. He isn't a developer or coder but he's not non-technical, either.
Wiki: D7UX Hot patches to test at upcoming camps & meet-ups *sizzle*
This is a HOT page, hot topics. Please edit and add topics.
Eigentor & I prepared this after chatting with Bojhan and Yoroy. All are invited to submit suggestions.
Drupal 7 is at a critical stage and requires user testing. This page is to help prepare a demo-site to make it easy for new user-testers to join in, and make a significant contribution to Drupal development. This will ensure that pivotal patches get the user testing they need, and that we don't trod old ground and waste time.
Add colouring (and description) to password checker
There is currently an open issue in the d.o issue queue Add colouring (and description) to password checker (#331893). The issue hasn't received much attention lately and I am curious what thoughts there are from usability and accessibility folks on the proposed patch in comment #36.
This patch essentially tests the password strength and displays a growing colored bar which changes colors depending on password strength. The patch also displays text to represent the strength of the password.
Anybody out there who can help with JQuery to make Drupal 7 accessible?
Mike Gifford (mgifford) and Everett Zufelt are addressing a major accessibility issue for the administration interface of Drupal 7. If they had help from someone with JQuery skills, they could make significant progress. If you think you can help, check out http://drupal.org/node/467296.
New module: Slashdot style comment system
This module implements major features of Slashdot moderation and comment system. I made a few attempts previously with various hacks/modules, but this module is very mature and fully compatible with latest VotingAPI. I have not encountered any issues using this module.
What it does:
Transforms comment controls to Slasdot type (thresholding).
Displays each comment slashdot-type.
Hides comments below threshold. Hidden comments can be uncollapsed by a click.
Provides slashdot moderation system (troll, interesting, insightful, funny, etc).
Delete tab (MENU_LOCAL_TASK) for nodes and removing "delete" button from node forms
This module adds a "delete" MENU_LOCAL_TASK to all nodes and removes "delete" button from all node forms. While this module is very simple and may not seem important for a developer, it does provide a significant improvement for content publishers/maintainers, especially to those who are new to Drupal.
Please leave your feedback.
Also, can I submit it as a contributed module?
deletetab.info:
; $Id: $
name = Delete Tab
description = Adds "delete" tab (MENU_LOCAL_TASK) for all nodes and disables default "delete" button on node forms.
package = Administration
Improving the usability of the Issue Queue
There has been a lot of informal talk about Drupal’s issue queue. For designers and non-technical people, it can be a confusing place. And while there has also been some talk about creating a separate place to discuss design-related issues (for example), the simple fact is: the issue queue is where developers get informed about problems and requests and that’s the place where they organize the work that they do. If non-developers want to improve the code, they have to use the issue queue.
Suggested change to Find Content form
The 'Find Content' form has a prominent place in Drupal 7. However, the form poses accessibility challenges. The filter form is composed of radio buttons and dropdowns that visually correspond for sighted users but there is no indication they correspond for screen-reader users.
I've proposed a change to the Find Content filter form. I'm seeking feedback here and in issue #551034. I believe the change is a win-win for accessibility and usability.
Here is a screenshot of the proposed form:
Looking for video editors
I am looking for people who are able to do video editing, I have a number of videos that need some title's and minor editing. These are all video recordings of usability testing we have been doing at Baltimore in 2009, we have been able to release three of them but we intend to trow out all of of them - but for that to happen before Drupalcon I will need some help. You can reach me by contact form.
Tiny MCE in drupal
hi,
i am new in drupal , can anyone tell me how to use tiny mce module in drupal, i am using it but its not working except user # 1 . I want it for another admin user. please guide me how can i do that.
Thank you
Senpai replies: You should probaby have posted this in the forums on drupal.org instead, since this groups.drupal.org wiki is for the proponents of usability within Drupal itself. Try http://drupal.org/search/apachesolr_search/tinymce?filters=type%3Aforum as a starter link, kk? :)
Managing Blocks
I'm sure many of us have noticed a need for better block management. Or at least, these people have:
http://drupal.org/node/343710, http://drupal.org/node/416002, http://drupal.org/node/197844, http://drupal.org/node/386532
It does get harder to keep the blocks in the right order and to find the one you want to edit as the list grows, but my biggest problem is handling visibility settings.
As a user, here's how I'd expect to use blocks:
Active Issue about Changing the Name of the "Page" Content-type
Hi folks,
