User experience

I run a group of tech entrepreneurs called Ultra Light Startups (http://ultralightstartups.com/) and I'm interested in the use of Drupal in startups for several reasons. Many of our members' startups are either already built on Drupal or they are evaluating use of Drupal for a project. Several of our members are also active in the NYC Drupal community. Also, after hosting an event on Open Source CMS's last fall, I became convinced that Drupal was the right platform for several of my own projects, including a planned major upgrade to the Ultra Light Startups site.

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:

We've spent quite a bit of time trying to develop a framework to understand and frame the Drupal7 Audience in such a way as we can successfully design for them. We thought you might be interested in seeing some of our thinking to date, so we recorded a quick chat about it in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Al-0nUNARc
(I really should do my hair before videoing myself!)

As an overview, here is the outline of what we're thinking:

You may have heard the excellent and very exciting news that following on from our work on Drupal.org, Mark Boulton Design has been contracted to take a look at the User Experience for the upcoming Drupal 7, and I'm very happy to be working with him on this project as well.

Is anyone aware of a good guide for creative agencies with regard to creating user interfaces/web site designs that are easly implemented with drupal?

I put this screencast together that outlines some possible resolutions to the problems identified usability testing. The screencast picks up some of the latest design work put forward by many of you (admin interface, input formats, revealing admin nodes, etc). In most cases I built on top of your work.

What do you think?

http://www.jeffnoyes.com/content/drupal-6-usability-improvements-part-1

This is a working thread to discuss the (still far in the future) Panels 3 UI. I want to get work started on ideas to improve the existing UI, and for the moment we are allowed to go pie in the sky and suggest features. Please assume that pie in the sky features will eventually be shot down, though, but it's on the table because sometimes pie in the sky can really work or be made to work.

Create a new installation/site administration mechanism for Drupal. I should be able to configure any number of sites for my Drupal installation, right from the installer, through a simple GUI, without ever needing to manually copy files. The installer should be able to create the appropriate folders and files in the sites directory for me. I also should be able to return to the installer at any time to add additional sites to my installation, or to reconfigure existing sites.