Usability

We had lots of good ideas at Drupalcon, and even more good ideas here. Obviously a lot of people see the need of improving Drupals Usability. Als probably always in open Source Development, the problem is to organize and actually use the energy to yield results.

So how about collecting the areas to work on here and actually set up teams to work on it. I'll try to name the ones that were already mentioned and add a few.

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Hi. I'd like to document some links to Views2 UI mockups here. Links to the files have been bouncing around in IRC, maybe this can be a place for further thoughts on how Views2 could best present it's functionality to the user. I'll be updating any new screens here.

These all concern the “create new view” part of the UI, looking for ways to present all the available settings in a more compact layout.

first:
- views2-merlinsmockup.png

In his State of Drupal presentation at DrupalCon Barcelona Dries mentioned usability as one of the key factors in improving Drupal.
One of his practical advises was to do user testing.

So let's act upon that. Pick a friend, relative, colleague. Show them Drupal, let them try it out, and watch and listen them doing it. See what works, what they are struggling with, what their frustrations are. And write it down. Here in this group.

It doesn't have to be scientific research. Any feedback will help.

To structure this a bit: I believe 4 user roles can be defined.

Hiya! I've been reading up on this group today, and I've noticed most of the activity is aimed toward improving the administration. That's great, because even after working for two or three months with Drupal, it often still takes me two or three guesses and clicks before I'm finally at the page where I wanted to be - among other small frustrations.

Hello Usability group!

I'm happy to announce that the MiniMenus module is now available. This module has been in use on CivicSpace sites for some time, and I recently got permission to open source it and begin maintaining the module in my free time for the community.
It's been tweaked since last fall with feedback from CivicSpace users, and I've personally grown to depend on it.

We are beginning the process of re-designing Drupal.org. As part of that process, I conducted 10 interviews over email and IRC to help build a survey that will be posted on the Drupal.org homepage. Here is a summary of the Drupal.org interview responses that will be worked into a survey.

Question 1. Describe yourself as a Drupal.org user?

In the Drupal administration survey of 2000 administrators we learned that theming different sections and structures in a site was very important and one of the most difficult parts of administering Drupal.

Earl Miles has put together an important patch, and Dries is rallying folks to review it. Please download head, install this patch and try it out. http://drupal.org/node/130987

Cheers,
Kieran