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
Resources:
Issues that need design review.
Design and themeing drupal core initiatives
IRC: #drupal-design
Twitter: #d4d
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Drupal Design Camp Boston on June 13-14, 2009
Drupal Design Camp Boston is a free, two-day Drupal conference on June 13-14, 2009, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. It is being organized by members of the Boston Drupal group as part of the growing Design 4 Drupal initiative that launched when designers and themers took DrupalCon DC by storm this past March.
This camp also coincides with the drupal.org redesign sprint at the MIT Media Lab on Friday, June 12. The sprint picks up where the San Francisco redesign sprint left off and participants at the Boston sprint will be learning how to contribute to theming drupal.org as well as implement the redesign.
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Drupal Camp statues.
- Copenhagen
- New design up at http://client.geekroyale.com/drupalcamp/
- New design and content should be up later this week.
- Space can hold 150+ people
- Need sponsors. Can put out a call for them when the new site goes up. Details at http://2009.drupalcamp.dk/node/14. (money in danish crowns dkr or dkk)
- 33% design 33% newbee 33% codemonkeys & business
- Media / social blitz when new site design goes up.
- They need sponsors, input & session ideas.
- Need someone who knows video to help.
Agenda for 4/7 IRC Session
Drupal Camp statues.
- Copenhagen
- Boston
Snippets
- drupalsnippets.com or something else?
Themes
- Mothership theme (http://drupal.org/project/mothership)
- D7 themes
Theme System
- We need to come up with improvements we want functionally
- Better way to theme forms
Documentation for designers/themers?
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Proposed logos for Drupal documentation
It's been a couple weeks, add1sun, but we haven't forgotten you. Below are a few variations (courtesy of @modulista), with different sized pens, and different styles for the droplet. We hope they work for you. Let us know or give us any feedback you might have, and we can get you proper digital files.
P.S. You may have to resize your browser window to all all size variations.
25 beautiful Drupal themes
From many sides I hear that Drupal sites and themes are ugly, which is partly true, but I took a closer look at Drupal.org themes and handpicked 25 best designed Drupal 6 themes, to prove that Drupal can be beautiful even using standard themes that you can find on drupal.org website.
link: http://mogdesign.eu/blog/25-beautiful-drupal-themes/
If Drupal provided a blank base starting theme in D7 would it be more important as a designer that it:
Lovely discussions or forum threads
Does anyone have any good links to beautifully designed discussions/forums style things? Maybe designs that break the mold a little and take a new approach on the medium? I'm looking for inspiration and falling short.
-Nica
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How can Drupal get great new contrib themes?
The community wants great new themes for Drupal. How do we get designers and themers to create them? Someone discussed a contest but may designers are oppsed to that.
A suggestion: Call for volunteers to participate in a team effort where they will be grouped with others (perhaps 2 designers paired with 2 themers/UI specialists) and have them come up with a team name which will also be the name of their theme.
Give them a deadline and some publicity on d.o. with their bios and photos or portfolio links.
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The Audience Matrix Evolves (and how you can play at home)
We've just added a new video to the YouTube Channel which we refer to in this post - check it out now:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ShBPEL_ckJw
Over the past week or so Mark and I have been working out the details that go on the panels of the Audience Matrix that we shared with you last week (http://www.disambiguity.com/understanding-our-audience-part-1-drupal7-ux...) (or dress-up-doll document as it has otherwise been named). We’ve made a few changes and added a bunch of definitions.
Here’s what we’ve come up with so far:
ROLES:
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