To participate in topics pertaining to Drupal and Usability, please visit the Drupal Usability Group.
This group was created for the following purpose but is now defunct:
We are a working group to coordinate usability test plan development, outcome reporting, action items and other activities related to usability testing. This group is has initially be established as a place to organize the upcoming Drupal 7 usability tests happening at the University of Minnesota May 17-19, 2011.
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.
AWS - Amazon Web Services - Accessing servers on a mac using SSH and public/private keys
Hi everyone
I've been using AWS (Amazon Web Services) and their EC2/Cloud Formation services for the past week and have been testing the instant Drupal sites via the Cloud Formation. After much trial and error I have everything working with the exception that I am unable to upload/download files to the server as it requires SFTP utilising public/private key pairs. I've done everything possible and have viewed umpteen articles in relation to this but still cannot find any answers on how to do this via my mac.
Read moreEye Tracking / Usability - Tobii
Hi Everyone
I'm currently looking into the possibility of organising a Tobii eye tracking usability full day training session. (See http://www.tobii.com/en/eye-tracking-research/global/ for information in regard to Tobii and eye tracking in general for those of you that may not be aware of the system).
Read moreUMN Usability Test Recap (to be published on Drupal.org front page)
NOTE: please consider this post "locked". Any further improvements should happen on the Drupal.org version: http://drupal.org/node/1175694
Report from the University of Minnesota Drupal Usability Testing
From May 17 - 19, 2011, in advance of DrupalCamp Twin Cities, several Drupal community members met at the University of Minnesota usability lab in Minneapolis to perform a round of formal usability testing on Drupal 7. This is the fourth major usability testing for Drupal, and the first targeting the new Drupal 7 release.
People who were familiar with building websites (but not with Drupal) were observed while they worked through a number of site building tasks. This report contains a summary of the results.
Summary
The good news is that most of the changes that were put in Drupal 7 tested well. Compared to Drupal 6, Drupal 7 no longer confuses new users with basic conceptual hurdles like where the front-end vs. back-end of their site is and how to create an "About us" page, and for the most part the administrative interface is clear.
The bad news is that now that some of these basics have been dealt with, we've uncovered a whole new layer of challenges for first-time Drupal site builders, some of which were pretty surprising. Finding modules, creating and placing blocks, and creating content types were difficult tasks for participants to understand, and it's these site builder tools we'll want to improve for Drupal 8.
Read on for more detail and learn how we can take these results and turn them into an even better Drupal 8 user experience!
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Usability testing of Drupal at the University of Minnesota
Read moreTest plan
NOTE: This is the high level test plan for the study. Please feel free to edit and add to it. Although the team has agreed upon the methodology for the study and the focus on the tasks, the wordings for the tasks/scenario have not been finalized yet. WORK IN PROGRESS DOCUMENT.
Project Name: UMN Usability Study
Location: University of Minnesota
Date: May 17-19, 2011
Purpose:
The goal is to learn about the first experience of using Drupal and uncovering usability issues through a community based usability study.
Background:
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UMN Testing - First thoughts
As we are getting ready to plan things for UMN testing, I am excited and throwing some irons in the fire. As we all know there are plenty of things that need to be ironed out like - what do we test? how many participants do we need? how much are we compensating them? how long should the sessions be? whom should we test - new users or experts or both? Oh, well ! For such and many more questions, we have the meeting next time :) But just to get things started I would like to share what we could possibly test. The intent of this post is to solicit ideas and suggestions and start a conversation.
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