Tackling UX design challenges
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.
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UX Dinner at BADCamp
It is that fantastic time of the year where we try to figure out if we are going to make it BADCamp this yet. I am excited that I will be attending this year as well. It is not only the biggest camp but also a great collaborative area to talk, share, discuss ideas/plans and move forward.
I am hoping to have a UX dinner (or something) at some point during the event so that we can address some of the UX issues. So, let us know:
- Will you be at BADCamp?
- What are the tentatives dates will you be in the city?
- Any tentative dinner dates that work for you?
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.
Submit your session proposals to the Frontend track DrupalCon Sao Paulo.
Hola Drupaleros, my name is José, and I’m the Local Track Chair for the Frontend Track at DrupalCon Sao Paulo 2012. Did you know that in December will take place the first Drupal Con in LatinAmerica, right? Of course you knew!!
I know you have brilliant ideas and wonderful experiences you would like to share with the Drupal community, and this is your chance! Today I'm inviting you to submit your session proposals to the Frontend track.
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New usability tool based on Drupal: UCDmanager
Hello everyone.
I'd like to invite you to use UCDmanager. It's a personal project that allows to manage different usability techniques:
UCDmanager http://ucdmanager.net
I think it may be interesting to this group because it's based on Drupal, and because it allows to perform usability techniques in a collaborative way, that is very important in open-source developments. You could use it, for instance, to planificate, perform and communicate the results of usability evaluations of Drupal core or modules.
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Use overlay/modal when adding/editing and then returning to same page
A saw EclipseCG's session at DrupalCon Munich where he demonstrated the great improvement work he has done to Blocks and Layout for D8. I am really looking forward to be able to start experimenting with that.
However, the demo also showed a typical case for where we can greatly improve the usability, and UX feedback for site builders when, as in this demo, adding a new block from the library.
As it works today:
1 - Click the "Add block..." link
2 - The library page replaces the page
3 - Pick a block and you get to a third page
Hard to do site builder usability testing
The work being done by Bojhan and others in this group, as well as within the Spark and other initiatives is simply amazing. It will undoubtedly lead to better UX and usability for especially those that will work with content.
As a site builder I am very eager to be able to get more involved in this work. Personally I am most interested in helping to test the usability and UX when constructing these editing interfaces, and provide feedback on that. Especially since it is those interfaces I as a site builder will be using the most in my work.
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I've in the middle of a series of 6 posts presenting my views and ideas on how to make the Drupal Learning Curve less steep by better understanding and improving the site builder experience.
Its my opinion that by doing so it will also make it much more easy to not only build sites with better usability/UX for users, but also sites that are easier to maintain and expand with new features.
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B&L - Prototypes
Summary
After many intense discussions on the concept model, we have a working prototype as a deliverable and would like to get your feedback on our progress. The current version of the prototype takes the technical as well as the UX challenges of building this for Drupal core.
This post gives background to how we got to the prototype, outlines some of the major concerns and gives a detailed description on the process we followed. With feature freeze coming quickly it’s likely we need to move faster on the remaining tasks outlined at the end of this post.
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Responsive Drupal.org: A Sass and Susy framework
Previously, we had a friendly discussion on what we could use as a responsive layout framework for Drupal.org. Rupl, Banghouse, and myself played around with a lot of the options discussed in that post to work out which would be a good fit for us. Snugug also volunteered to help us out with technical questions and implementation.
We ended up deciding that using a Sass framework solves a lot of our problems, specially Susy. Implementing this framework is no small feat. We wrote a little summary of the Sass, Compass, and Susy implementation.
Read moreUX Happy hour (11 june)
The next happy hour is on June 11, 2012 (Monday) on IRC channel #drupal-usability. The agenda for the meeting is:
Blocks and Layouts initiative
Renaming default menu's
Mobile
P.S.: Make sure to check the right time zone for the meeting. The meeting is scheduled for 4 PM (EDT).
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