Design 4 Drupal

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

The Design Issue Queue is not dead...

Posted by modulist on March 13, 2009 at 12:15pm

...just buried. Really, really deep.

So deep, that it took over an hour to find -- after we had been given a tutorial on the subject. Even after Damien Tournoud had been kind enough to point it out, it still took some searching. It's very important for us to make this great usability feedback tool a bit more, well, usable.

Was the Design Issue Queue a pipe dream?

Posted by modulist on March 13, 2009 at 1:24am

At Drupalcon 2009 in Washington, the Drupal design community were asked to become active participants in contributing feedback to the Drupal project.

mfer was kind enough to give members of the Design for Drupal (D4D) Group a tour of how we could provide feedback through the Issue Queue. As a matter of fact, we were shown a version of the issue queue in which any project could be flagged as "needs design review".

Don't you hate theming /admin?

Posted by ksenzee on March 13, 2009 at 12:46am

I personally hate trying to theme the admin section. It's a totally different project from theming the front end. I bet there are designers out there who would contribute great themes to Drupal if they didn't have to theme the whole back end. So what if we made theming /admin optional? Just specify "admin = false" in your .info file, and the system defaults to Garland as an admin theme. What say you, designers? Is theming /admin a barrier, or am I the only one that hates it?

Theming Contest

Posted by jrabeemer on March 12, 2009 at 4:27pm

We need a theme contest. It's been talked about many times over the past few years. I give you the previous attempts...

http://drupal.org/node/17876, http://drupal.org/node/25312, http://drupal.org/node/55460, http://drupal.org/node/6247#comment-9358

I think these attempts have failed due to lack of funding, support and clear organization. I want to get the ball rolling on this. Please reply with your ideas and comments. Here are my ideas I'm tossing around.

nerd, geek, design & theming Resources

Posted by mortendk on March 12, 2009 at 3:03pm
Last updated by mortendk on Fri, 2009-03-27 17:34

Got some awesome tool that we should know about? go ahead and add it
CVS
Heres some resources to understand that cvs thang:
* Robs wonderfull podcast http://mustardseedmedia.com/podcast/episode28
* cvs guide for themers: http://drupal.org/node/262432
* smart cvs http://www.syntevo.com/smartcvs/download.html
* http://fourkitchens.com/blog/2009/03/12/cvs-instructions-tab-now-availab...

#IRC
For Mac:
* colloquy: http://colloquy.info/

Cross-Platform:
* ChatZilla https://addons.mozilla.org/sk/firefox/addon/16

Editors

themercon

Posted by kvantomme on March 12, 2009 at 11:09am

Over at the Drupal event organizing group there is a discussion about having a separately branded themercon in Paris.

Is there interest for this? Since there is so much energy in this group, maybe there are people who want to chime in and offer help to the Paris organizers?

Documentation logo

Posted by add1sun on March 11, 2009 at 1:54pm

Sorry to add a bit of noise here, but I was directed here. :-) During the Drupalcon sprint, I hopped in to some of the design sprinters to ask if we could get some snazzy documentation logos for the docs team. I'd like to have a variety of images for folks to choose from when doing presentations or blog posts around Drupal docs. There won't be anything "official" about so we definitely want more than one so that people can choose what they like.

Agenda for 3/18 IRC Session

Posted by mfer on March 11, 2009 at 1:14am
Last updated by modulist on Wed, 2009-03-18 21:15

Please add your agenda bullets below.

Quick 2-3 minute updates on ongoing initiatives:
documentation/CSS Manual of Style
training
Events and Programming:
- Drupal Camps
Design and Themes
Drupal showcase
PR
How do we handle signups for people who couldn't attend last week?
Documentation Team logo (http://groups.drupal.org/node/19964)
Drupal Demo hosted by us that looks good.
Only Garland and Stark themes left in core. Others removed.
Theme challenge.
camps - when & where & who
Whats the difference between D4D & the theming group: mortendk

Weekly Design Group Chat

Posted by CrystalWilliams on March 11, 2009 at 12:44am

Start:

2009-03-18 21:30 - 22:30 UTC

Event type:

Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)

In IRC #drupal-design

Agenda to be posted soon.
http://groups.drupal.org/node/19951

Time Zone Translation:
London - 9:30pm
New York - 5:30pm
Los Angeles - 2:30pm

Notes from IRC chat 3/10

Posted by prestonso on March 10, 2009 at 11:01pm
Last updated by prestonso on Wed, 2009-03-11 00:40

Notes from IRC chat #drupal-design 3/10 by prestonso & sheena

See the original agenda

Organizational

Ambassador/Liaison

Lead task force:

mfer (developers)
prestonso (developers, usability)
Rob_Feature
johnvsc
mortendk

Showcase Curators

modulist
sheena
jrefano

Manual of Style Leads

jacine
sheena
jasonrsavino
canarymason
wildfeed

Issue Queue

Design queue management

mfer
carolyn_gjd
prestonso

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