Thursday, January 21st
7:00pm EST
Online meeting details below
Part 1: Design Process for Olivero
Olivero is a core initiative to create a new default theme for Drupal 9. Designing a core theme presents unique challenges as compared to designing traditional websites.
Jen will tell the story of what it’s like to design a theme for an open-source content management system (CMS) and will answer questions like:
- What are the challenges we encountered while designing a theme for an open-source community made up of thousands of stakeholders?
- What approaches and methods did we use to do this successfully?
- What design decisions were made to make Olivero accessible?
- What is the current state when it comes to the design of Olivero?
Presenter: Jen Witkowski
Jen has over 10 years of experience working on everything from mobile apps to websites, including some branding and print work. She’s used that experience at Lullabot working with such clients as MSNBC, This Old House, the NYU School of Medicine, IBM, Carnegie Mellon University, and Ames Laboratory. Her work has ranged from creating intuitive user experiences for intricate, data-dense apps to designing navigational solutions for complex website hierarchies. She's currently the design lead for Olivero.
Part 2: Intro to PostCSS
PostCSS is a tool for transforming CSS using JavaScript. It's been added to Drupal core in the Olivero and Claro themes. In this discussion we'll learn more about PostCSS: what it is, why you would use it, and how it differs from SASS and LESS. Then we'll take a quick look at a real implementation.
Presenter: Megan McDermott
Megan McDermott is a Senior developer for Woolwich Web Works. Megan works for a small company so she does a lot of things: her current focus is is Drupal theming and site building but also does some Design/UX and accessibility work when required.
Megan's been working with Drupal since 2006 and is the co-organizer of the Waterloo Region Drupal User's Group.
Online Meeting Details
This meeting will be held online using Big Blue Button. Big Blue Button does not require any client-side software and has been tested on Mac, Linux, and Windows. Thanks to Paul Nijjar for setting this up for us.
Link: https://webconference.kwlug.org/b/pau-gy9-fdg
Access code: 437443
