d8UX

Tackling UX design challenges

Posted by yoroy on March 4, 2016 at 1:26pm
Last updated by yoroy on Tue, 2016-03-22 22:16

We're kicking off weekly meetings in IRC:

Tuesdays, 21:00/9pm CET (convert to other timezone)
Wednesdays, 09:00/9am CET (convert to other timezone)

Taking inventory of who, what & how:

People

Designers and developers of all kinds, project managers, copywriters, testers, researchers, none/all of the above: leave a comment saying how you'd like to contribute (and any of the roadblocks you encounter in trying to do so).

Priorities

See https://www.drupal.org/node/2497361 for a list of usability issues identified in Drupal 8.

Where can we start?
Is there a useful sequence to work through?
How do we decide on that?

Process

Core issue about possible process for big UX changes: https://www.drupal.org/node/2573119

On a more ongoing basis: figure out how to keep aligned on current work and next steps.

Unified approach to edit, contextual links, and overlay

Posted by tkoleary on January 17, 2013 at 2:56pm
Last updated by tars16 on Wed, 2013-04-17 13:14

Problem

“As a content author I want to make a quick change to a block on a page I am editing without having to wade through many levels of navigation or a sea of options.”

Spark Focus Group Findings

Posted by dcmistry on January 16, 2013 at 8:49pm

Focus of the study

To understand the following:

Current Pain Points with Drupal
Feedback on Spark
End to end process of content creation process
Applications used in conjunction with Drupal

Participant profile

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8 Drupal admins/ webmasters/ site builders/ themers who have professional experience (or interest) in user experience, user interface design, or web design at Stanford

UX open hours, dec. 10 2012

Posted by yoroy on December 10, 2012 at 10:50pm

UX open hours, 10 december 2012

Small meeting this time.

Content creation page

http://drupal.org/node/1838156 and http://drupal.org/node/1838114 need help. Everybody wants to see this new interface make it into Drupal 8. Now's the time to make it so! Background and more related issues to push forward in http://drupal.org/node/1510532#comment-6757500

Edit-in-place (all the things)

Kevin has been working on a prototyping on a unified approach for edit in place: http://invis.io/7H9SAI8N . Not in the issue queue yet, but a very promising concept, have a look!

First Drupal 8 multilingual user testing results

Posted by gábor hojtsy on December 6, 2012 at 5:10pm

One of the key things I wanted to do in the Drupal 8 Multilingual Initiative after the December 1st feature freeze hits is to go and do lots of user testing of the functionalities we built and adapt the user interfaces and flows to make it easier to build multilingual sites (and then test it again). Not many people believed this would actually happen (when you say in an issue you'll follow up with more user testing, and so on, it can be seen as just a way out to move on). However I've got outstanding help from Bojhan Somers, Dharmesh Mistry and Lisa Rex on best practices for user testing. I not only got help on the tools to use, but also building out a concrete test plan with Dharmesh and Bojhan actively involved. To say the test was well prepared is an understatement.

Live Webinar: Taking Drupal Cross-platform

Posted by timwelsch on December 3, 2012 at 10:07pm

Event type:

Training (free or commercial)

http://www2.appnovation.com/l/16832/2012-12-03/x392

10 things you need to know to optimize a Drupal website for any device or platform.

When:
January 10th
North America – 2PM EST. Register Here
EMEA – 3PM GMT. Register Here

UX team IRC meeting 26 november, 2012

Posted by yoroy on November 26, 2012 at 10:52pm

With bojhan, dcmistry, lisarex, kolearyUX, webchick and yoroy.

Topics

UX task list: where/how
Field UI revamp in core: possible past feature-freeze?

Maintaining an actionable task list for ux team

We discussed opening an 'uxteam' project on d.o/project/uxteam and use its issue queue to maintain a list of actionable tasks that aren't necessarily directly mappable to a core component or contrib project yet.

There's a Google spreadsheet where we tried to maintain a list of UX design tasks that are actionable, but not fit for a issue:

Tracking published date in Core

Posted by jstoller on November 25, 2012 at 7:14pm

Have you ever wished core would track the date/time a node was published, instead of just when it was created and modified? Well, now is your chance! There is a patch in the issue queue, but it needs review and time is running out before feature freeze. Please get involved.

http://drupal.org/node/1838918

A Generalized Modal Dialog Strategy

Posted by user advocate on November 21, 2012 at 1:46pm

Modal dialogs are making their way into core and this could have a great impact on UX strategy for all of Drupal. In general modals are useful for allowing a user who is engaged in a primary task objective to temporarily carry out a ‘secondary’ task in an additional ‘window’.

The SiteBuilding Usability Initiative video released last month illustrates the general concept.

Layout initiative - UI update

Posted by Bojhan on November 21, 2012 at 8:29am

Gabor Hojtsy has been working hard to get the fundamental UI's in place to make the layout iniative happen. We decided during BADCamp that we needed to scale down our ambition, to get something into core. Although the API's have seen steady progress, we are yet to have any major UI facing parts in Drupal core.

To do this we now focus on allowing you to create at least "landing pages", static pages with a layout assigned to them.

UX team meeting notes 19 november, 2012

Posted by yoroy on November 19, 2012 at 10:58pm
Last updated by yoroy on Mon, 2012-11-19 23:01

Status update at less than 2 weeks before feature freeze

First-off: everything is moving. This is good.

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