A place for discussion on Unique Mobile related requirements.
This page is also home to the Drupal Mobile User Experience Initiative.
Objectives
- Improve the usability of the Seven Theme for small screen and touch screen devices.
- Design the experience of the Drupal Administration interface from the perspective of the "Mobile User".
- Brainstorm Drupal Administration features to take advantage of the unique features of mobile devices.
This is a working group, no job postings please
D8 Mobile Initiative IRC Meeting #4
Please join us for our fourth IRC meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Thursday, February 16. Using IRC is easy; Drupal.org provides a guide to using IRC.
Thursday, March 1:
San Francisco — 11am
New York — 2pm
London — 7pm
Taipei — 3am (Friday)
D8 Mobile Initiative office hours
This Sunday, the Drupal 8 mobile initiative will be holding our first weekly office hours in IRC. The office hours will allow regular contributors to work together at the same time on the Initiative’s issues. And will allow new people to figure out how they can help too!
Read moreD8 Mobile Initiative IRC Meeting #3
Please join us for our third IRC meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Thursday, February 16. Using IRC is easy; Drupal.org provides a guide to using IRC.
Thursday, February 16:
San Francisco — 11am
New York — 2pm
London — 7pm
Taipei — 3am (Friday)
AWS - Amazon Web Services - Accessing servers on a mac using SSH and public/private keys
Hi everyone
I've been using AWS (Amazon Web Services) and their EC2/Cloud Formation services for the past week and have been testing the instant Drupal sites via the Cloud Formation. After much trial and error I have everything working with the exception that I am unable to upload/download files to the server as it requires SFTP utilising public/private key pairs. I've done everything possible and have viewed umpteen articles in relation to this but still cannot find any answers on how to do this via my mac.
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The Progression of the Drupal Mobile HTML Prototype
The aim of the Drupal Mobile HTML prototype is to demonstrate the look, feel and thinking behind the design for Drupal’s Mobile Admin interface. It is purely for demonstrative purposes.
This document references the D8MUX Roadmap and everything in that post also applies here.
Strategy for the Mobile Initiative
This strategy document uses the Minimal Viable Product strategy, which you can read more about on Wikipedia.
Contents of this document:
- General overview Big picture of the mobile landscape
- Objectives The top-level goals of this initiative
- Program tasks Where the actual work is listed
General Overview
Read moreD8 Mobile Initiative IRC Meeting #2
Please join us for our second IRC meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Thursday, February 2. Using IRC is easy; Drupal.org provides a guide to using IRC.
Thursday, February 2:
San Francisco — 11am
New York — 2pm
London — 7pm
Taipei — 3am (Friday)
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Native Mobile Apps + Drupal 8 - What is the role of native mobile apps?
I've seen a lot of discussion of web-only solutions for mobile Drupal, but very little about native applications, whether that means iOS, Android, Blackberry, Symbian, Windows Phone, or something else.
Read moreEye Tracking / Usability - Tobii
Hi Everyone
I'm currently looking into the possibility of organising a Tobii eye tracking usability full day training session. (See http://www.tobii.com/en/eye-tracking-research/global/ for information in regard to Tobii and eye tracking in general for those of you that may not be aware of the system).
Read moreD8 Mobile Initiative IRC Meeting
Please join us for our first IRC meeting to discuss issues related to the Drupal 8 mobile initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-mobile on IRC at 19:00 UTC on Thursday, December 22. Using IRC is easy; Drupal.org provides a guide to using IRC.
Thursday, December 22:
San Francisco — 11am
New York — 2pm
London — 7pm
Taipei — 3am (Friday)
Design Initiative IRC Meetups
Please join us for our 1st bi-weekly meeting to discuss issues and progress related to the Drupal 8 Design initiative. The meeting will be held in #drupal-design in IRC.
PST: 11:00 AM
EST: 2:00 PM
UK: 7:00 PM
CET: 8:00 PM
Designing Drupal's Mobile Navigation
The first problem we need to solve is how users get around Drupal's interface on devices with small screens and touch screens. See the D8MUX road map.
Let's do some brainstorming and prototyping over how we get this good on mobile.
What do we need?
- Simple
- Consistent
- Finger friendly
- Complementary - The navigation can't upstage the main purpose of the page or task.
Current pain points
One page many purposes
Read moreDrupal Multisite??? Shared cck fields???
I'm not sure if this is simple question or not, but I'm a little bit confused.
I am planning on developing 4 drupal sites that are essentially pretty much the same in terms of what they do, they will look different but will more or less do exactly the same job as each other with the odd exception. What I'd like to know is if it is possible to feed the sites from the same database and most importantly can the sites share the same cck fields 'if and when' they are required, or do you need to either share all fields or non at all?
Read moreDrupal 8 Mobile UX Roadmap
As we found out in London, Drupal's mobile admin interface faces some big obstacles to overcome. If we want to to be able to tackle some of these problems in the next release cycle we need focus, the idea being we don't move on to the next item in till we have the previous one licked. I've whipped up proposal for our road map. This is by no means complete, there is plenty of detail to fill in.
I'm hoping we can work on it together.
Words to live by
Don't let the current interface hold us back
Read moreBlueskying Drupal 8 Mobile Solutions
Building mobile solutions encompasses a large problem space: native apps, HTML5 web apps, responsive design, device capability detection, mobile/desktop switching, front-end performance, etc.
I'm seeing lots of really interesting contrib modules and themes tackling mobile problems in Drupal 7.
Since Dries has already indicated that mobile will be an important aspect of Drupal 8, my question is:
what do you think Drupal 8 core (not contrib) should provide for mobile solutions out of the box?
Read moreUser persona for advanced content creator
Last updated by jasonsavino on Sun, 2012-04-08 22:56
As the Curriculum and training group has identified while outlining the various skill sets involved in site creation & use, there's an under-represented skillset in the site creation process: that of the "Advanced content creator". This person has unique requirements, and to describe the requirements, it's first helpful to describe the person / persona. I hope this will be useful not only to the Curriculum & training group, but to other Drupal initiatives related to the Drupal needs of this type of user that is (already, if not increasingly) frequently present at sites deploying Drupal. (Thus the cross-posting to multiple groups.)
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Drupal UX – IRC open hours #7
Another edition coming up. Join us on IRC in #drupal-usability ( What's that? ) for:
- Discuss the last remaining topic for the usability gate documentation: choosing our design principles to guide Drupal UX work.
- Bring your contrib module user interface problems! If you know the UI sucks but are unsure how to improve it, bring screenshots and/or a demo site and we'll review it.
Do you have other topics you'd like to bring up? Let us know in the comments. See you there!
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FitVids for fluid width videos
FitVids is a new module for fluid width videos.
http://drupal.org/project/fitvids
It uses the FitVids.js library for fluid width video embeds (YouTube, Vimeo, etc).
It's useful if you are using a responsive theme (such as Omega), and want the videos to scale.
Available for Drupal 6 and 7.
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Highcharts
Happy to announce the first release of the Highcharts module.
http://drupal.org/project/highcharts
Producing mobile-ready SVG/VML charts and graphs without flash.
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