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.

Make Module Install Process Easier

Posted by recentcoin on May 30, 2014 at 8:16pm

After encountering this error message: elFinder library was not found. Please download it from http://sourceforge.net/projects/elfinder/files/ and install to . (Currently using elFinder Not found) and having had to futz with the placement of various external files to get things like the WYSIWYG plugin and PLUPLOAD plugin working, I had an idea.

Wheels To Borrow Instead of Reinvent

Posted by recentcoin on May 28, 2014 at 8:08pm

There are some things that other pieces of software do really really well. When you can borrow or copy their wheel, why go to the trouble of building your own from scratch?

Survey: Blocks & layouts from D7 to D8

Posted by dasjo on March 20, 2014 at 11:43am

Hi all,

I have created a survey for my presentation on Blocks & Layouts at Drupal Dev Days Szeged.

If you want to share your take on dealing with Blocks & Layouts in Drupal 7 and your perspective on Drupal 8, go ahead and fill this one out:

https://dasjo.webform.com/form/11188

Also feel free to share my tweet

https://twitter.com/dasjo/status/446299426047660033

Did I miss any options in the survey? I'd be happy to received some feedback and will keep you posted with the results and my slides after Drupal Dev Days.

Greetings,
dasjo

New admin menu/navigation paradigm

Posted by det2048 on March 15, 2014 at 9:07pm

Hi,

UX Lead for the Drupal.org Community Tools Team

Posted by tvn on March 3, 2014 at 9:43am

Hi all,

the Drupal.org Software Working Group is looking for a UX Lead for the future Drupal.org Community Tools Team.

More information about the team is at: https://groups.drupal.org/node/400478 and https://groups.drupal.org/node/402653.

Let us know if you are interested or know someone who might be!

Thanks.

A newbie question - UI module advice

Posted by any.site.n.site... on February 23, 2014 at 7:05pm

I want to publish a module i wrote in propose of improving drupal site's administrator UX. Is this group the right place to ask for some advice with it? If not, where in drupal.org is the right place?
Thanks.

P.S.
I searched for something like explanation of the group's rules and did'nt find (maybe I did'nt know where to look). If this post is against the rules you can 'course delete it.

Clipboard integration

Posted by palik on January 18, 2014 at 1:18am

I've made a short video how it works in WP when you buy a commercial product called Image Elevator. I was in luck to have beta test it and now i use it on my blog. Using it (like on Gmail) is just amazing - it makes writing a blog post really fast and natural as using MS Word.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MdVca8bhv3k it is under 1 minute

If this could be achieved in Drupal it would be a killer feature for all content creators.

The nearest implementation I've found is filefield sources (with clipboard) + insert, but it is not as sleek as seen on video.

Trying out a new tool for surfacing good ideas

Posted by tkoleary on December 11, 2013 at 5:12pm

It's been a pet peeve of mine for a long time that, while D.O and G.D.O have a lot of great ways to add ideas and discuss them there's really no efficient way of collectively prioritizing the ones we should focus our efforts on.

I have spent a lot of time trying out different tools that do this, as well as trying to design and build them. We may at some point reach a home-grown solution, but in the meantime I have found a very simple and effective tool that I'm trying out. It's called Tricider. I've posted an initial question here:

http://tricider.com/brainstorming/1H6kX