Seven Style Guide update
A few months ago in February we proposed a style guide for the Seven theme, we are now well underway. This is a recap and look ahead.
The objectives of the Style Guide are:
- Identify Drupal core values that we can use to determine the look & feel for the Seven theme.
- Unify the visual language in Seven and ensure the overall look-and-feel supports the core values.
- Identify the visual and UI patterns used by Drupal core so that they form a conscious, shared language for us to built upon.
Drupal UX BoF at Capital Camp 2013: Notes
Drupal UX BoF at CapitalCamp 2013
Attendee positives:
- Drupal is getting better for marketers, content editors
- Inline editing is great!
- Style guide is good.
Attendee pain points:
<
ul>
Improve Drupal 8 user interface texts
With APIs as good as frozen, it's time to take a step back and get an idea of what's all been added to Drupal core. The capabilities are there, now to expose and communicate them so that people understand what's going on and apply it to what they want to achieve.
To most people the user interface is the application. All the machinery under the hood is taken for granted. It's easy to lose sight of this, but very important to keep in mind.
Read more
UX happy hour, July 1: frozen!
Join us in IRC to review last weeks work and plan for what to do next.
With the Drupal 8 APIs (as good as) frozen, it's now time to clean up and clear up. Many new capabilities landed in core, now to shape the user interface in ways that help people understand and use them.
Read moreUX happy hour, June 24
Drupal 8 Toolbar and Admin Information Architecture research study: your input needed!
I plan to run a Drupal 8 Toolbar and Admin Information Architecture research study, to inform any improvements to the current Drupal 8 admin IA. The target participant is a site builder and/or heavy content creator.
But first, what questions do you (or people you work with) want to know about the current IA? How people are using? When they are using? From what devices? Etc etc.
Put all your questions you'd like to answered by this study in the comments below. If there are duplicate questions, great! That will help inform priorities.
Read more
Major UX risk - Modules in D8 might not be possible to disable
For the last few months I have been following the progress of https://drupal.org/node/1199946 (Disabled modules are broken beyond repair) and issue that originally was created two years ago.
In my opinion there is great risk this is going to turn into yet another UX nightmare for Drupal 8. The current course this issue is taking is that core wont have any UI for disabling modules. See the https://drupal.org/node/1199946#comment-7525917 comment for resent info about this.
Read more