Hello, we have received over 1700 responses from the Drupal administration survey. We are looking for a small team of committed folks to conduct analysis on the survey results. In particular, we have significantly more user information that allows for us to develop profile information for different types of Drupal users for different needs. Drupal's new profile system could allow for better profiles to meet the needs of "Accidental techies" creating community sites, versus professional site developers creating and e-commerce site.
In particular we know that developers prefered method of receiving user experience results is in screenshots. We would like to have a follow-up exercise in which the survey results are translatted into screenshots of improvements.
If you are available to dedicate several hours to help prepare this report, or prepare UI designs please contact me.
Cheers,
Kieran
CivicSpace
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Other than Neil and I have recieved no offers to help with the analysis of the 1700 survey results.
There are almost 1100 other responses that must be read, analysed, and categorized. With five main types of users, and 6 main types of sites we have a lot of combinations of results to analyse and target improvements for each of our different audiences.
Cheers,
Kieran
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Okay Kieran, I'm game. Let
Okay Kieran, I'm game. Let me know where to start. BTW, I'll be in the Bay Area for the GSOC mentor submit next week between the evening of the 13th and leaving the morning of the 16th. I'll be staying with Zack over the weekend. Maybe we'll get a chance to meet face to face.
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Mock-up suggested improvements
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Research has been done to show that usability suggestions are best received by developers when presented as mock-ups of improvements.
The results are indicating a couple of specific difficulties:
1) Discover where to configure site settings, or where all the different places where a site needs to be configured are.
-I would recommend mocking up situational administration interface. Try a page called getting started, to cover initial site configuration. On average we see Drupal administrators working on their sites 3 times a week for 30-60 minutes. Try creating a page call regular maintainance, with a list of frequently administered settings.
2) Manage large groups or users, nodes, menu items, comments, blocks
-Scour the web for examples of managing large lists of items effectively. Make some mock-ups for grouping, categorizing, searching, and selecting lists of items and then performing operations.
I am targetting these tasks based on things that would help, and things I think you would be particularly good at. If you want to read and categorize hundreds of other responses I can assign some of those to you as well.
Thanks for your help.
Cheers,
Kieran
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