All Spark designs
Quite a few people have asked for all the designs that Spark is working on to be accessible from one place so that they don't have to sift through all of the issues to find them. Below are links to all of the invision prototypes that are available right now as well as a few html prototypes and live demo sites. I have included the related issue numbers so you can make comments in the appropriate issue.
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D8 Toolbar Usability Study Plan (Mobile + Desktop)
We are planning on doing some usability testing of the mobile prototype, below we have outlined the test plan. Since we haven't tested this prototype much, we are focusing our initial test plan primarily on finding out how they experience the navigation - not necessarily how they experience the admin theme.
Name of the project: Toolbar testing
Type of study: Moderated
Focus of the study: To get answers to the following high-level questions:
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 (May 28)
The next happy hour is on May 28, 2012 (Monday) on IRC channel #drupal-usability. The agenda for the meeting is:
- Blocks and Layouts initiative
- Strategy for Views UI
- On ramp process for Drupal
P.S.: Make sure to check the right time zone for the meeting. The meeting is scheduled for 4 PM (EDT).
Read moreUsability test findings: Content creation
Goal
The goal of the study was to uncover usability issues with the new prototype for the content creation experience for Drupal 8. The study was conducted with new and existing users.
Methodology & Participant Demographics
- 11 participants ( 6 existing users and 5 new users) were tested for this study. Based on the availability of the participant and flexibility of the contributor, the studies were moderated (5 existing users and 1 new users) or unmoderated (1 existing user and 4 new users) using userfeel.com
- Sessions lasted from 30 minutes to 60 minutes.
- Participants of this study write/edit content on a content management system and write content at least more than once a month. The participant screener can be found here: https://docs.google.com/a/acquia.com/document/d/1KcL3aNUceVKXi9HLAubZv70...
- Participants were asked to think aloud and perform tasks followed by a brief scenario. The study plan can be found here: http://groups.drupal.org/node/223959
- The study was conducted in April 2012.
UX Happy Hour (April 16)
Hello All,
Fantastic Drupalistas, the next happy hour is on April 16, 2012 from 4 PM (EST) to 5:30 PM (EST) on our rocking #drupal-usability channel.
The rough agenda for the meeting:
1. Bojhan to give an update on what's rocking the Drupal UX world (hint: Layout)
2. Dcmistry to talk about the content creation usability study and how everyone can help to make this happen
3. (Tentative) Updates from the mobile UX Drupal world
4. If you have any designs (core or contrib), we could review them. (Tentative: orientation designs for Drupal 8 core)
Content Creation UX Study Plan
Introduction
Drupal 8 wants to provide a much-improved workflow for content creators. One of the most critical screens in this is the content creation page. This issue outlines a plan for implementing a new design for this page.
The main issues that this design wants to solve are:
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UI for hierarchical permissions, introducing permission rules
This is a user interface proposal for hierarchical permissions, a concept aims to make it possible to have modules with hierarchically structured, accurately regulable permissions.
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D8 UX Analysis – The IA Space Hypothesis
An ongoing difficulty in design discussions is finding reliable/agreeable words to describe or identify key concepts. Whatever label we choose for an idea may have different connotations for different people. The term ‘Information Architecture Space’ (or ‘IA Space’) is certainly subject to varied interpretations so I want to take some time here to describe what I’m referring to more fully.
Read moreD8 UX Analysis: Design Assumptions and Principles
The architectural changes underway for Drupal 8 via WSCCI and related activities present UX designers with the non-trivial task of working out a new approach to Drupal administrative and content management tasks. UX design is a complex matter under any circumstances but when the technological ground is shifting dramatically under the feet of the designers then it is all the more challenging. Here are some brain exercises to help us limber up for the task!
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