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Other places to explore: Core issues tagged 'usability', Where UI docs live, Come chat in IRC in #drupal-usability.
Getting Feedback?
I'm finishing up work on a network of sites that will likely be getting a huge amount of incoming users in the coming weeks. One thing I haven't included yet it is a way to provide feedback about issues and problems (I know there must be some :). I could use a simple contact form but I'm wondering some of the best approaches for getting user feedback and handling issues within Drupal. Thoughts?
Read morePattern library To-do's
We have been working on the pattern library at http://drupal.org/ui-standards and we are slowly getting closer to a workable version for inclusion in our gates. I would love for others to contribute more to this, so here goes my own to-do list for the pattern library. Obviously the end-goal is a pattern library that is really easy to comprehend and apply, with walk-through, the individual patterns and a easy to navigate listing.
First of all almost all patterns still need review, from both copy to the recommendations. Additionally some of them are still incomplete, in general I wish to:
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Pimping Field UI
Display Suite uses Field UI to add all its extra features in two ways
- Extra vertical tabs at the bottom for the various options: layout, styles, region to block, custom fields
- Adding a region column in the table, adding the 'Limit items' textfield next to the format and the 'Field display' link for the markup and label.
I think the solution of the vertical tabs has turned out fine and doesn't really need improvements here (unless someone disagrees of course). The area which could need some improvements though are on the table itself.
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Usability IRC Meeting#3
Hey,
We are planning to do our next IRC meeting on Usability. The Usability IRC meetings are our version of UX Happy Hour. In order to have a more effective integration of usability to Drupal (especially for D8) and give usability feedback to designs, the UX team is going to start the bi-weekly one-hour IRC (#drupal-usability) meetings. Agenda for each meeting will vary.
The agenda for this meeting:
1. Review contributed modules on their UX.
Any contrib maintainer, please submit your module for review with some screens or a demo!
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Skype meeting on D8 usability gate on Aug 8
A lot of discussion is going on about the D8 Usability gate and we are making progress!
Each of the usability gate specifics are being discussed/ drafted and they are posted here to solicit feedback. That being said, what is needed is to HASH them out. So, we are going to have a skype meeting on August 8, 2011 from 2 PM - 3 PM (New York - ET).
The world times are here: http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/meeting?lid=5128581,4887398,5391959,261842...
It is encouraged to read through the posts relevant to the gate for the meeting.
Read moreUX Gate: when and how to do usability testing
A part of the UX gate is a set of guidelines for deciding when and how to do usability testing. This is the working document for those guidelines.
Read more(Draft) Guidelines for writing effective user interface copy for Drupal administration pages.
One sentence:
Drupal admin comes down to filling out forms, so write clear and consistent labels, and where needed, use descriptions to help people make a decision and move on.
Read moreUX Gate: Principles
After long discussions in http://groups.drupal.org/node/158764 and numerous meetings about the UX gate we concluded that we want the UX gate to have a "principles" requirement.
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Report from ideup! - Drupal Bartik Theme Testing
At ideup!, on the 6th of June we tested Drupal 7's Bartik theme. The target was to verify which parts of the whole theme were well organized and easy to be adopted by the users and which ones did not.
Summary
The good news are that there is nothing critical that could turn wrong the impression of a newcommer ;-D.
Read moreUsability IRC Meeting#2
Hello Usability Peeps,
It is already the time for our the next IRC meeting on usability. To give you some background what is this? The Usability IRC meetings are our version of UX Happy Hour. In order to have a more effective integration of usability to Drupal (especially for D8) and give usability feedback to designs, the UX team is going to start the bi-weekly one-hour IRC (#drupal-usability) meetings. Agenda for each meeting will vary.
The agenda for this meeting:
1. Discussion: Things you would like to be changed in D8 with respect to usability and why?
Usability and Accessibility, do they make sense together?: UPA Boston Meeting
UPA (Usability Professionals' Association) Boston is having a meeting on July 20, 2011 for a night of accessibility at the MIT Stata Center in Cambridge.
CONSIDER ATTENDING IF YOU AROUND THE AREA AND INTERESTED IN THE TOPIC.
LINK: http://2011julyupa.eventbrite.com/?utm_source=eb_email&utm_medium=email&...
The topic to be discussed:
Usability and Accessibility, do they make sense together?
Files and Documents Organization: Module / Setup Suggestions
I've setup a COD (conference organization distro) for a yearly environmental conference that works quite well in general. Unfortunately, the group I made this site for is transitioning from a simple HTML site with most changes being uploaded as pdfs via ftp. Traditionally they do most of their changes and communications via documents and files. Instead of providing ftp access, what modules or setups provide a good, safe and clean UI for Files and Documents Organization?
Thanks...
Read moreUser Research at DC London
DrupalCon is approaching! Excited?
I am thinking of leveraging this opportunity and get some data. We could of course do usability testing! But instead I think, I would be better to do user research because:
- Usability Testing can be done remotely
- We are getting usability testing data (slowly but, yes!)
- We don't have any user research data
- User research data will greatly help the design process + plus many other obvious advantages
RESEARCH AT DCL:
What I plan to do research on?
Drupal 8 User Experience Sprint - Drupalcon London
Mobile user experience
People are accessing with the web more and more on the move from their mobile devices. If it hasn’t already, it will be a basic expectation of any product to be just as usable from any device as it is on the desktop. Drupal has some catching up to do and then some. We need to make Drupal 8 friendly with tomorrow’s devices as well as today’s.
This sprint will focus on usability testing on a wide range of devices. Bring your phone, tablet, web enabled e-reader or gaming device.
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design.drupal.org Prototype for Review
Over the past few months we've been working away behind the scenes on the Drupal Design site prototype. There are quite a number of technical considerations when building a new drupal.org sub-site so these needed to be ironed out before we could really show this off.
I've posted a number of screen grabs to Notable and we can use these to collect comments and feedback on the various screens throughout the site - you can leave general comments here but if you're wanting to leave comments about the actual screens please post those to Notable.
Read moreDrupal Usability IRC Meeting
Yoho! This is our own version of UX happy hour. In order to have a more effective integration of usability to Drupal (especially for D8), the UX team is going to start the bi-weekly one-hour IRC (#drupal-usability) meetings. Agenda for the meeting will be a little different every time but the focus will be on Drupal Usability gates, get feedback and involve the larger community.
For this particular meeting, the agenda will be:
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Hash out things for D8 usability gates. http://groups.drupal.org/node/158764 -
How to plan/ construct for more usability data?
Usability Findings: How is it to create a new content type or edit an existing content type?
Usability Findings
How is it to create a new content type or edit an existing content type?
Background:
Note: The issues listed here are not added to the issue queue yet. The intent is to discuss them before we put it there
Read moreDesign Initiative IRC Meeting
We are holding our inaugural Design Initiative IRC meeting on the 5th July - if you want to have input into the initiative then be there :)
The meeting will be held in: #design-drupal (see: http://drupal.org/irc for info about IRC).
Agenda
- discuss wireframes (please see: http://drupal.org/node/1205044)
- discuss Design Challenges and how they might work (see: http://groups.drupal.org/node/152239)
- near the end of the meeting we will reveal the design.drupal.org prototype
Times and Timezones
http://www.worldtimebuddy.com/meeting?lid=5128581,2618425,2147714,539195...
Read moreDefining the Drupal 8 UX gate
Back at DrupalCon Chicago, Dries outlined a strategy for Drupal 8 involving a series of "gates" that would help ensure core quality in a number of different categories.
Read moreDesign Initiative - Workshop results
Results from the Berlin Design Camp Workshops.
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