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Proposal: A Style Guide for Seven
Last updated by riddhi.addweb on Thu, 2016-08-11 14:22
This style guide proposal for Drupal 8 core and contributed modules is intended to help shape and direct administrative UI development, with the goal being a theme- and brand-consistent administrative user experience. This node introduces design element proposals and related discussion. The evolution of the project can also be followed at:
Meta issue: https://drupal.org/node/1986434
Related issues: https://drupal.org/project/issues/search/drupal?issue_tags=styleguide
Motivation and Principles
At this point in the Drupal 8 development cycle many additions and changes have been made to Drupal’s administrative user interface, and more will be required as new features are completed. The existing changes have been completed in relative isolation from each other. Although each change and addition has been a step in the right direction, the result is a UI that lacks consistency.
This is largely for lack of a guidebook for Drupal’s admin UI. Even though great, coherent UX work was done for Drupal 7, and we have functional UI standards, there remains no central guide for the visual conventions used in Drupal’s core admin theme, Seven. We need something to help us maintain visual consistency when changing and extending the UI. We need a style guide for Drupal’s default admin theme.
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Drupal SBUI Collaboration Platform now open
Hi Everyone,
I know, its been rather quiet from us since the announcement of the Drupal SiteBuilding Usability Initiative some two+ weeks ago. Well, BADCamp got in the way and Michael and Doug was busy mingling with all the amazing Drupalers there for starters. While they where doing that, I spent my time learning and configuring Open Atrium as we have chosen it as our collaboration platform for Drupal SBUI.
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Announcing the Drupal SiteBuilding Usability Initiative (SBUI)
Usability is the ease of use and learnability of a human-made object.
Source: Wikipedia
"Our ambition is to help improve the usability of Drupal for all user roles
– from core developers to anonymous site visitors"
What we would like to do (long term goal)
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Come to BADCamp 2012! November 1st - 4th
On behalf of the SF Bay Area Drupal community, I want to invite everyone to attend this year's Bay Area Drupal Camp (BADCamp) hosted on the beautiful campus of the University of California at Berkeley from Thursday, November 1st through Sunday, November 4th. Now in its sixth year, BADCamp is the flagship Drupal event of the San Francisco Bay Area and is expected to draw almost 2000 attendees for four days of summits, sessions, sprints, and social events.
UX Happy Hour (April 2)
Hello All,
The next bi-weekly UX happy hour is on April 2, 2011 from 4 PM (EST) to 5 PM (EST) on the super IRC #drupal-usability channel. Hang out with the cool ones, after all Monday is the new Thursday!
The rough agenda for the meeting:
1. All the inside scoop from DrupalCon Denver
2. Introductions and How to make things better for interested people to contribute to usability?
3. Discuss a feasible timeline for future actionable items
Note: If you have designs that you would like the UX folks to take a look at it, bring them. We will be happy to give our two cents.
Read moreDrupal must stop automatically delete data/content without warning!
Building advanced websites with Drupal without any need of custom coding/modules is rapidly improving almost on a daily basis. With a foundation using modules such as Views, Page Manager (CTools) Panels, Rules, Flag, etc we can accomplish many advanced designs by just point and click.
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Twitter's Bootstrap
So Twitter decided the world needs about base toolkit for making web apps, Bootstrap.
It looks like it has some really smart default styling and some good established UI patterns. It's worth picking through for inspiration on UI patterns and general core usability.
Forms, in particular buttons, is interesting. Maybe adding styling for the HTML5 "email" input would be a great addition to Seven. The checkbox styling also looks great!
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Usability IRC Meeting#3
Hey,
We are planning to do our next IRC meeting on Usability. The Usability IRC meetings are our version of UX Happy Hour. In order to have a more effective integration of usability to Drupal (especially for D8) and give usability feedback to designs, the UX team is going to start the bi-weekly one-hour IRC (#drupal-usability) meetings. Agenda for each meeting will vary.
The agenda for this meeting:
1. Review contributed modules on their UX.
Any contrib maintainer, please submit your module for review with some screens or a demo!
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Usability test event at ideup!
Hello everyone!
I have just discussed within my company, www.ideup.com, about helping with further tests. We already have a usability lab with a camera and are willing to set up everything needed to bring a group of people to perform the tests.
Webchick says that there are more areas of Drupal 7 to be tested by people who does not know Drupal. Could anyone help me out to find them? Which are the top priorities at the moment?
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