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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Drupal.org Office Hours
Come to Drupal.org office hours to share what you're working on and help us come up with the weekly drupal.org hit list!
Stop by #drupal-infrastructure from 11am to 12pm Pacific Time (18:00 - 19:00 UTC).
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I have lots of WYSIWYG data
Drupal Gardens has had WYSIWYG for 2 years now. We have quite a bit of data, both on upfront research in terms of technical expertise on which editor is the best choice, as well as on usability data.
I should have posted this data earlier, but just haven't made the time. Sorry. Better late than never. Here's the data...
Early on, when we were trying to figure out which editor to use, we compiled this doc...
https://docs.google.com/a/acquia.com/document/d/1e8ysEI-DvC5p0Q3Bl45R1bK...
Editing content
Prior to Dries' keynote, I had put this 'edit content' prototype together. Feel free to add comments:
Read moreChanges to the find content screen
Like it or not, people make instant decisions. Unfortunately, the instant decision Drupal users are making is 'this looks hard.' As such, the remaining experiences people are having, are under the premises that they are in a hard tool. It's urgent that we change this.
To mitigate this, I want to propose a scenario which is partially based on observation of countless usability studies being performed on Drupal Gardens - which in essence is Drupal.
Users come into Drupal, they see and/or interact with:
- the first page
Usability Report from the Drupal 7 UX Study at Google
This past February Garen Checkley, Jen Lampton and I ran the Drupal 7 Usability Study at Google. We created a handbook page on drupal.org to share the exhaustive list of usability issues. While we learned about a lot of specific interface and module-level problems, we also saw broad trends that called for a higher-level analysis.
You can view this report here.
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Introductions, say hi
With Drupalcon Denver going, we're meeting a lot of new people who reach out saying they would like to get involved. It's not easy to find the best place to get started in this big big community with so many things going on.
So, please use this thread to say hi, introduce yourself and tell a bit about what you do and how you think you'd like to contribute. From that, we can help eachother find a place and topic to get cracking on.
Thank you!
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"I just want to edit a node" Core Conversation
I am presenting a Core Conversation at Drupalcon in a few hours and am using this discussion as a place to hold or redirect follow up questions and issues.
http://denver2012.drupal.org/content/i-just-want-edit-node
Read moreBootstrapping Media UX efforts
I met with Thomas at Drupalcon Denver to talk a bit about how to get more people excited about and involved with improving the user experience of the Media module(s). Here's a very rough first draft of what we came up with:
Goal
Get more people excited about improving the Media module UX.
Strategy
- Make it easier
- Make it fun
- Make it worthwhile
Make it easier
Read moreA first wireframe for a create content screen for small screens
Sitting in at the Denver mobile sprint I spent some time coming up with a wireframe to explore how we could organize the create content page for small screens.
Background:
The general idea
- Content creation and editing screen consists of fields, settings and publish/save buttons.
- Show each field on its own line. One line for each field.
Design iterations for the content creation page
Last updated by ruslan piskarov on Fri, 2020-04-03 06:30
Over the last few months we have been working with Jared Ponchot, on redesigning the create content page. Based on our research and further discussion we chose a direction for which we developed more detailed designs.
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