Design for Drupal is about bringing the community of designers together to be a part of the Drupal community. It’s about enabling designers and themers to do great stuff, coordinate efforts, come up with crazy ideas, and build a movement to make Drupal beautiful.
For specific questions about theming and how to make Drupal look a specific way visit http://groups.drupal.org/theme-development
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Drupal Design Camp Berlin
join top drupal designers and developers for 2 days of focussed workshops, sessions & discussions on design and drupal. This event will shake the very foundation of Drupal & how druplicon looks at itself will it end up purple ?
See http://drupaldesigncamp.net/
Read moreMobile Personas & User Stories
Mobile Verity
Read moreVerity is a part time administration assistant for a cancer support charity. She is working part time while she completes her Social Care Diploma. Before she left work to study, Verity was a Personal Assistant in the Finance Sector. Verity is in her late twenties. She is quite proficient with the MS Office Suite (Word, Excel etc.), and she uses Facebook and email but she doesn’t consider herself very good with technology.
Design Initiative: Narrowing the use case - who are our users?
To scope this discussion - this is about our new core theme for Drupal 8 and who it will serve, and how they will use it.
Its not possible to design and build something that will suit everyone, so we have been working on narrowing it down to identify who might use our new core theme and what their needs might be.
I have expanded on this and tried to think about skill-sets, constraints, features and what type of sites might they be building.
Read moreDesign for Mobile - bikeshed!
We need to start thinking and talking about what approaches we're going to take in Drupal 8 with regards to design for mobile.
My own opinion is that we should probably be looking really closely at responsive design and how we might apply or adapt the patterns emerging in that field. The idea of "one web" and a unified design and user experience independent of device appeals to me. I don't want an impoverished mobile experience, so please don't assume what I want to see or do just because I'm on a tablet or handset.
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The Third Annual Drupal Design Camp Boston - June 25-26, 2011
The third annual Drupal Design Camp Boston, the Drupal community's first camp dedicated to design, will take place again at the MIT Stata Center on June 25-26. Each year, 315+ Drupalists gather in Cambridge to discuss ideas and take part in interactive sessions on the future of Drupal, focusing on everything from usability to technology from a design perspective.
Website:
http://boston2011.design4drupal.org
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Read moreCross Application User Interaction Design
Recently I was lucky enough to have a lengthy discussion with Jane Wells, the lead User Interaction designer for Wordpress. During the call she raised the interesting topic of cross app UI design. If you're not sure what that means let me briefly explain - in short it means that apps like Drupal, Wordpress and Joomla could use the same UI designs or patterns to give site users a consistent UX (user experience).
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Current themes needing review
If you have already got a theme(s) listed as a full project on Drupal.org then you will be aware of the process of having to have your first project 'reviewed and tested by the community' before being granted access to create new full projects.
The people who review and devote time need a big thanks as they enable to D.O. community and resources to grow, so thanks!
Read moreDesign Initiative: Designing for the Common Use Case
The Design Initiatives main purpose is to build a new theme for Drupal 8 and as part of this initiative we are preparing a Design Brief. The brief will be part of a "Designers Toolkit" which also includes a set of wire-frames. The brief itself comprises of two parts - a set of documents outlining Drupal core output (to support and clarify the wire-frames) and a Use Case Brief. Its the last bit I want to talk about here and open up discussion on. In essence what should this use case be?
Read moreDesign 4 Drupal 8, and Beyond
As many of you will know by now the Design Initiative for Drupal 8 is underway. We're going to build a new theme for Drupal 8, however this is not the only goal of the initiative - we have two other goals: provide a collaborative environment for designers and to promote Drupal to the broader design community. In essence we're raising the profile of design and designers in the Drupal community, with a particular focus on Drupal core development.
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