Usability
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
- UX issue queue proposed changes to Drupal that need your review
- Say hi in IRC, #drupal-usability on freenode.net
People to look for and where to find them
bojhan and yoroy are the Drupal UX maintainers. UX team is certainly bigger than that but they generally know what's up. Feel free to contact them. The easiest way to find us is to join the Drupal group chats on IRC. We're in #drupal-usability on irc.freenode.net, here's the info on how to get on there and here's even more
But yeah, start with saying hi in the comments! :-)
Design for Drupal: The Wiki
At the recent & awesome DrupalCon Copenhagan we had two Birds of a Feather meetings regarding what can be done to involve more designers in the Drupal project.
Live user journeys demo and comparison of Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla
Hagen Graf did an excellent live usability test at the unconference immediately before DrupalCon Copenhagen. He's a a tech writer well versed in all three of Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal, so he was able to draw out the strength and weaknesses of getting started with each platform.
Views 3 UI, Review of Concepts
I spent some time reviewing UI design work on Views 3 (And Acquia Gardens "Data pages") UI concepts:
- "Views 3 UX Season is open", February 2010, Yoroy
- "Views 3 UX workflows and ideas, round 1", April 2010, Rasskull
- "View3 UI explorations, part 2", July 2010, Yoroy
- Acquia Gardens "Data Page" concept mockups, Jeff Noyes?
- "More Views 3 concepts", July 2010, Jeff Noyes
NOTE: I have not read all of (or even very much of) the related discussion, so am likely missing important developments.
There are some great "sky-high" ideas in most of these. However I think it's likely that all of them will run into issues as or more significant than the current UI, in that either;
- They will be be too restrictive upon advanced functionality and features and make them difficult or hacky to include in the (in the case of Gardens, that is likely intentional, as advanced features are probably not supported);
- They will have similar types of unforeseen issues to the current UI. Subtle and seemingly minor nuances or even features that actually make a big impact on the UX.
Four Personas = Design for Drupal
At the recent & awesome DrupalCon Copenhagan we had two Birds of a Feather meetings (where like minded people meet to have an an informal discuss) regarding what can be done to involve more designers in the Drupal project.
To help aid these discussions we started from the very beginning and created 4 personas. There personas were intended to represent the various types of people who are potentially frustrated with the state of design in Drupal.
BrainStorming about how Drupal is able to "compete" with community product usable out of the box
Community products usable out of the box : How is Drupal able to "compete"?
BrainStorming session Monday 3:00 to 4:00 pm Copenhagen time, Register at http://groups.drupal.org/node/88459)
Drupal has now at least two community products usable out of the box. http://commons.acquia.com & http://openatrium.com
(Edit 20100822) http://drupal.org/project/voicebox targeting targets community media
+ facebook like feature http://sndemo.dev3.webenabled.net/node/1
There is a need to see how those projects compare and are able to "compete" with non-Drupal products.
Need a +1 or twelve for a simple issue: Add an "Associations" field to our d.o profiles
Apologies in advance for this crossposting to 11 groups. I recently started an issue to help us get to know each other better: Add field for "Memberships in Associations, Societies, and Other Professional Organizations" to User Profile. The initial response was, "Don't see why not, but let's hear more support before we do." So this is an appeal to read the issue and consider giving it your support.
Is there a product competition analysis of the main socialnetworking solutions ?
Is there a feature list and competition analysis Drupal or non Drupal intranet usable out of box ?
The main supects (for me) would be :
Build on top of Drupal http://commons.acquia.com & http://openatrium.com
In OpenSource http://buddypress.org/
In MS http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/
In Saas http://www.jivesoftware.com/ for business and http://ning.com for general public
If not already the case we can try to do that together...
We have quite some material in previous discutions
http://groups.drupal.org/node/53268
http://groups.drupal.org/node/45468
September IRC Meeting 9/7 2pm ET
Join the #drupal-accessibility IRC Group now and meet with us on Tuesday, September 7th.
We'll review our progress on the #D7AX pledge, announce what is up for DrupalCon-Copenhagen, talk about our commits and the work that remains to be done for Drupal 7, and then develop our plans for Drupal 8.
For the latest agenda, read the full version of this item. To add an item to this agenda, either comment below or contact one of our group organizers — Cliff, mgifford, or brandonojc.
If you missed August's meeting, read the logs to find out what we got done then.
More Views 3 concepts
I've since started designing a variant of views that's specific to DrupalGardens, but thought some of you might like to see the concepts I came up with for the non DrupalGardens version of Views..
Wiki for Usability Documentation, Guides & Approaches
I just wanted a list of usability resources so thought I'd put the ones I knew about into a wiki & encourage others to expand it.
Associations
Usability Association & Approaches to user centered design:
- http://www.upassoc.org/
- http://www.upassoc.org/usability_resources/about_usability/what_is_ucd.html
- http://www.openusability.org/
General Usability Links
Usability & Free Software
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