Welcome to the Designers and Information Architects group. The focus here is on aesthetics and Drupal, whether it be improving the look of your customized site or creating themes to giveaway. Design novices and "theme ninjas" alike are encouraged to contribute by asking questions and sharing their tips.
This group aims to cater to designers first and foremost by making Drupal easier through sharing knowledge. For developer discussion about improving Drupal's theme system please visit the Theme Development group.
Problems with Ical
Hello,
Our web firm is having some trouble with some ical integration.
Most events show up in ical as one hour off, while others show up with the correct time.
Any ideas or direct support would be much appreciated.
Please email me directly at james.welsh@ursaminor.com
Thank You!!
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What is biggest drupal project you have ever managed ? (size in man-days)
Workflow for engaging designers/themers in core patch reviews?
At Drupalcon Szeged, I had some discussions with the documentation team and the usability team regarding workflow for getting their feedback injected early into the core development process. I'd like to start a similar discussion here with you folks.
Drupal 7 with its code freeze date of "When it's ready" represents a great opportunity for us all to collectively "kick it up a notch." Key to this is involving many more people in the core development process than we normally have. There are always several relatively minor core patches that affect themers in the queue at any given time, such as add $node_classes to node templates, as well as huge, over-arching efforts such as administration theme in core.
But unfortunately, a lot of these patches stagnate and die, because designers have not traditionally been a group of people that we've served particularly well. I'd like to see that changed.
Current Redesign Conversations You Should Take A Look At! Experience Strategy & Audience Segmentation
hi all
Just wanted to get these in front of you for your review - we're currently discussing:
a) the experience strategy for drupal.org, (http://www.disambiguity.com/draft-drupalorg-experience-strategy/) and
b) proposed audience segmentation for drupal.org (http://www.disambiguity.com/insiders-and-outsiders/)
take a look, give us some feedback!
and don't forget you can also participate on Flickr, Twitter and Slideshare!
(more info here: http://www.disambiguity.com/opening-the-floodgates/)
thanks
Leisa
What is the budget of the biggest Drupal Project you have ever managed ? (size in $)
Post your proposed session for DrupalCampLA 2008
This is easy and quick, nothing fancy, no voting - just post your session idea (title) and your name/contact info and show up to present that day! We have sessions open from 10am-2pm each day (Saturday and Sunday) and each session should plan for 45 minutes each.
http://groups.drupal.org/node/12528 (edit wiki page)
If you can't see or edit the wiki page, be sure to join our group which may be required for editing the wiki page.
Read moreSzeged UX sprint: Topics and Resources
This is the tweaked summary of this IRC chat.
We will focus on improving usability for new users.
There will be a usability BoF every day of the conference.
Schedule:
UX Sprint Day 1: Introduction and clearing of main issues
(see List below), probably together with Dries and Jeff Noyes
Wednesday, Aug 27, 4pm Cisco BoF room
(maybe everyone pick a task on end of Day 1)
UX Sprint Day 2: Forming of workgroups, working on tasks and discussion in small groups...
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IRC chat: Planning the Szeged Usability Sprint
So we want to work on Drupal usability during Drupalcon. I proposed to have 3 BoF sessions during the first 3 days of the conference:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/12972
Let's have a chat in IRC and come up with an agenda and try to focus on the important issues that we could really work on in Szeged.
We will meet in the #drupalcon channel
Read moreDrupalCampLA 2008 - September 13-14, 2008
DrupalCamp Los Angeles 2008, this September 13-14 (2 days) at the Los Angeles Convention Center
We think Drupal is the best open source content management system period and we're not the only ones. Faced with a bigger demand for Drupal developers than even last year... the Los Angeles Drupal Users Group has decided to throw our second annual free community training session to improve the level of Drupal development in Los Angeles. Plus it's a geeky good time!
Drupal Camp LA 2008 will be held from September 13-14th at the Los Angeles Convention Center.
Attendance is FREE! RSVP required. Register for the event and sign-up for updates at http://drupalcampla.com
Registration
Registration is now open. If you plan to attend and/or sponsor the Los Angeles Drupal annual DrupalCampLA, then please visit the following URLs.
Attendees register at http://drupalcampla.com
Sponsors - http://drupalcampla.com/sponsorship
Proposed Scheduled Sessions - http://groups.drupal.org/node/12528 (add yourself to present)
Read moreThe Great Szeged Usability Sprint of 2008
Improving usability is a top priority for Drupal 7: http://buytaert.net/usability-usability-and-usability
So, it is also a big topic for Drupalcon in Szeged. Besides presentations and sessions we should work out a format for actually getting some stuff done, too. Let's call it a Usability Sprint. We should focus on fixing the actual issues found by the two usability tests.
The best way to propose new UI improvements for Drupal is writing proof-of-concept modules. It would be great to get some of those done during a focussed Usability Sprint.
So, how's this for an ideal usability sprint scenario:
BoF Usability Sprint Day 1
- zoom in on 1 or 2 issues we already decided upon before the conference
(redo admin categories, modules page, permissions page…) - bring your ideas and proposals
- discuss the options, decide on 1 or 2 things we can work on.
example:
- do a card sort on the admin categories
- discuss the different 'dashboard' approaches people already use
- choose 2 options we want to compare / test
another example:
- let's pick a nice chunk of core interface text: labels, descriptions, help
- rework them for clarity, consistency and brevity.
Drupal.org web analytics and key performance indicators web conference: 6PM Pacific Time
Web conference: http://acquia.acrobat.com/keyperformanceindicator/
For Participants: Access Code - 450345#
Dial - (712) 432-1600
International Dial-in Numbers:
Austria - 0820 4000 1552
Belgium - 070 35 9974
France - 0826 100 256
Germany - 01805 00 76 09
Ireland - 0818 270 021
Italy - 848 390 156
Netherlands - 0870 001 920
Spain - 902 886025
Switzerland - 0848 560 179
UK - 0870 35 204 74
This call will be recorded, I apologize for the late or night call for European members, but this was the time when Mike was available.
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Interested in bidding on Drupal.org redesign project?
In preparation for the anticipated release of the redesign RFP, I am soliciting the names and contacts for firms or individuals who are interested in receiving a copy of the RFP and all official communications about the project.
The scope of the project includes:
- research
- information architecture
- design and branding
(The full draft RFP can be found here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/11336)
Firms or individuals who can show successful experience in one or more of these areas on projects of similar size are encouraged to participate in the bid process.
Read moreCross post: project outline and UI design for an AJAX powered image gallery
I just posted my outline and UI design for a new image gallery module to Drupal on the Raincity Studios blog. It uses CCK, imagefield, and imagecache, and has both galleries and images as nodes.
I'm looking for feedback on the idea, and to see if people are interested in having this built, either through a reverse bounty or some other method.
UPDATE:
some projects following this slides are now existing, see here :
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Showcase of great Drupal designs
Stumbled on this yesterday...
http://www.drupalmuseum.com/
Nice to see a design-oriented showcase of Drupal sites!
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5/12/08 Design Outreach Call
call in: +1 605-475-6000 access 333892
URL: http://connect.studiomodule.com (15 users)
For our bi-weekly call, we'll be reviewing hosting options and hopefully making some progress with project management and training materials.
This week we will be using a conference bridge set up on InstantConference.com. Hopefully that'll eliminate issues with those of you on VoIP or Skype (or the embarrassing limitations of our in-house phone system!)
Read moreDesign Outreach Group call
We'll be doing a conference call on Monday to discuss progress on the Design for Drupal site, and hopefully be able to display some theming work.
Please call in to +1 305-238-8875 to join the call.
I look forward to speaking with you then!
Read moreDesigner case studies: How designers are successfully using Drupal, working with the community, to grow their business
There's lots of Drupal development shop success stories. However, there is not enough information for designers who have considered using Drupal to understand how it works for Designers and how they can use it to grow their own business.
If you are a designer, with a design portfolio prior to using Drupal, please consider writing a case study for Designers who are considering using Drupal in their practice.
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Higher Education Web Symposium
On July 15th & 16th, the University of Pennsylvania's School of Medicine will host the Higher Education Web Symposium.
This two-day conference will provide tools, tips and techniques for web designers, developers, programmers, and project managers to help us all create better and more usable applications and websites. Jared Spool leads off the all star cast of presenters. Additional scheduled presenters include: Eric Meyer, Dana Chisnell, Stephanie Sullivan, and others!
Read moreThe icon design starter kit is here.
Ok, icon drawing time! Here's my suggestions for some specs and guidelines to get started with. All feedback welcome.
In the attachment:
- an icon template file for Inkscape
- basic directory structure for organising and categorisation of the icon sources and png renders.
The directories are mostly empty, but have a look in the applications and the mimetypes folder, there are SVG files for:
- forum icons
- calendar icons
- mimetype icons (with PSD sources for 16 and 32px versions which are actually further developed then the SVG!)
Home for the Design outreach group
Hi, last week at Drupalcon Boston we had an entire track dedicated to design and user experience. As the conference organizer, I specifically designed this track into the conference program to help build momentum within the Drupal design community. Claudio and others took the initiative and created a special new group called the Design and Outreach group.
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