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Other places to explore: Core issues tagged 'usability', Where UI docs live, Come chat in IRC in #drupal-usability.
How do you convince a Drupal company to invest in Drupal's usability?
I would love to be contributing a lot more to the Drupal Usability community, especially in the implementation of prototypes, and solutions to usability issues. However I'm pretty limited by the need to make a living.
Several people here in the community work heavily on Drupal Usability, and appear to do so under company time. How did you convince your employers to invest in Drupal Usability?
Read moreUsability Mockup: Drupal Dashboard
I have been dealing with clients from multiple Drupal websites today and found myself wishing for the following interface for my clients. Maybe this is something worth pursuing. At least we have a visual to get the discussion started. I've attached the .PSD file and used the icons from the free library found here.
(I hope the img tag works. If not, click on the attached png.)
Read moreRegarding visited-link color on the drupalusability.org site
Hi guys -
I wasn't sure where to post this (originally asked in the d.o webmaster queue - was pointed to the uxteam group, however I'm not able to access it). Hopefully someone here will know the right person to look at this suggestion.
Read moreShortname is D4D, new theme for core to match install profile
Changed shortname here to D4D. I suggest that tag get used in the issue queue and elsewhere as well.
Also changed shortname for Mark Boulton group -- http://groups.drupal.org/drupal7ux
My proposal / idea was to work on a new design that:
a) has a particular goal to match the out of the box install profile that ships with core
b) highlights different features of the theming system - regions, different node types, etc.
c) highlights different strengths of drupal -- different data types, multi-user capabilities (profiles, blogs, additional roles)
Usability group homepage is getting out of date: let's fix it
Problems with g.d.o/usability:
- Duplicated content: "Post by topic" block in main content are and "Group categories" in sidebar are 100% same, one of them needs to go
- Outdated information: Both "Quick UI review please" and also "We are working on:" sections in usability frontpage are severely out of date
New trends:
- important usability issues can now be found at http://drupal.org/community-initiatives/drupal-core/usability
Help make Drupal7 amazing - what we're doing at Drupalcon
You may have heard the excellent and very exciting news that following on from our work on Drupal.org, Mark Boulton Design has been contracted to take a look at the User Experience for the upcoming Drupal 7, and I'm very happy to be working with him on this project as well.
Read moreBetter token lists
Has anyone come up with a better way of presenting the list of tokens to users? I'm finding that what I'm doing is really ugly and would love to know if anyone has seen any good examples of how to present tokens in a more usable manner.
Add home page link and create content link by default to the primary menu?
While Drupal 6 has an edit link in the primary menu, how about adding a 'home page' link and a 'create content' link in the primary/main menu by default in Drupal Core? The create content link doesn't need sub-links, it just needs to link to the node/add page.
Primary menus (especially left aligned ones directly under the site logo/name) tend to be more visible to new users than sidebar menus.
Read moreAlternate administation interface
We can do a dashboard style thing: http://dmitrizone.com/mockup-demo.mov
Read moreTotal Drupal administration revamp
This is actually very very closely related to Redesign /admin as well as Re-work top-level admin categories. I don't want to pollute both issues with the following findings. If you are interested in reworking Drupal's administrative structure and top-level categories, you want to read on.
[01:22] * tha_sun gathered awesome usability insights from a newbie Drupal user after lengthy discussions.
[01:22] * tha_sun will incorporate that knowledge in admin menu 3.x.
[01:24] <dmitrig01> tha_sun: that being?
Book Usability
I haven't seen any discussion about Book usability on here yet it's one of the highlighted topics for things that need to be patched in Drupal 7 usability. Does anyone have any thoughts on how Books can be improved. I have a whole module dedicated towards Book usability improvements and while the project as a whole I'm sure implements a bit too much to be rolled into core, it does have a lot of features which make using books in Drupal faster and MUCH more user-friendly thanks to outline designer, thickbox, prepopulate and the ajax modules.
Read moreTranslatable fields UI
Over the past two weeks at the core internationalization virtual sprint, we've been working on translatable fields. This would allow any core field attached to a node, user, taxonomy term etc. to be multilingual.
Core already allows for translating one entire node into another node, but you can't for example have translatable user profile fields, or taxonomy descriptions - and we're hoping this patch would be an enabler for that (and also make node translation more flexible).
Read moreColumns in node forms
First of all I must say that Michael Haggerty's solution looks great. I've worked along the same lines with my project, that is, splitting the node form into two columns, not exercising jQuery magic. My module splits node forms into a main and right column and a footer. The admin interface makes it easy to change the region placement, weights and collapsed-state of all top-level form elements.
Read moreDrupal 7 Usability (a.k.a. patch and developer) Sprint
Come 12th February, and IIT Kanpur will hold FOSSkriti (under its Techkriti technical festival's banner). As the name quite well puts it, FOSSkriti deals with all Free and Open Source Software. And this time in 2009, we'll see workshops and sessions on Mozilla technologies, HTML 5, Sahana, YUI and yes, Drupal!
Read moreDrupal 7 Patch and Development Sprint at IIT Kanpur, India
From 12th to 15th February, IIT Kanpur will hold FOSSkriti (essentially an open-source-oriented conference with sprints and workshops). I have put in a proposal to hold a "Drupal Patch and Development Sprint". Below is the proposal mail that I sent...
website - http://techkriti.org/#/fosskriti
Our primary aim at the hackathon will be to try and tackle some of the
impending Drupal 7 patches in the pipeline. Drupal 7 is poised to be
the best Drupal release ever (with stuff like a completely re-written
DB layer, a unit-testing framework, improved usability, better file
UB: Test plan
As you might know, we will be spending a week at the University of Baltimore doing a usability test (http://www.bojhan.nl/usability-testing-at-university-of-baltimore/). We intend to focus this study more on solving the problems that have previously been identified by testing at the UMN and UB.
Read moreAdministrative theme
I've been working over in the theme candidate for core7 area for a while focusing on a 960 based core theme and subtheme starter kit. In addition to this I've ported over an admin theme from d5 we've used internally for a while now to d6/960 grid. I would love to get feedback from the UX team on what is good/bad about it, and where it might be improved. Ultimately I'd like to see if we can get this into core as an administrative theme. Let me know what you all think, and how I can improve this.
Eclipse
http://www.drupalworx.com/files/ninesixty.tar.gz
Read moreComment revision and Comment system
Every once in a while, I am faced with the lack of flexibility of the comment system of drupal. Usually it is fine enough so we forget about little features, but this one is I think worth thinking about.
User case scenario :
- Someone post a new topic in a forum.
- Someone else comments on it, as well as 10 other peoples.
- one of the 'commenter' change his comment
Customizing Drupal node forms
Michael Haggerty is working on an interesting node-form customizing tool for Site admins. See the video demo and blog post (from Planet Drupal). It appears no code has been released yet. I believe there is some cross-over here in functionality with Panels2, although I've never actually used that part of panels2, so I'm not sure.
Read moreMedia Sprint file upload proposal
This is a first run at the UI from the file uploader from the media sprint in NYC. We are not sure if we want to replace file upload forms on the page or use a popup window for the interface similar to how asset does things. Regardless, this is a multi-tabed element which houses media that the user has created locally or externally, upload and embed forms. Additional tabs are possible but have not been discussed.
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