Usability

Come discuss, create and plan great Drupal UX design

Other places to explore: Core issues tagged 'usability', Where UI docs live, Come chat in IRC in #drupal-usability.

Yahoo usability tests bode ill for OpenID takeup

Posted by Amazon on October 16, 2008 at 12:53am

http://www.betanews.com/article/Yahoo_usability_tests_bode_ill_for_OpenI...

Observing these tests was more than a bit frustrating for the Yahoo OpenID team, and the test subjects may have been distracted by the sounds of the groans and head-pounding coming from the other side of the one-way mirror. Certainly there is a lot of work to be done on the OpenID UX (user experience) front.

Jeroen Couwmans' tips for account-pages

Posted by Bèr Kessels on October 15, 2008 at 2:47pm

From: http://jeroencoumans.nl/journal/drupal-user-account-pages

"... That’s just weird and plain bad usability – a page title should be descriptive of the main function of a page.

Anyway, there are ways to override that. Drupal uses a placeholder variable to dynamically determine the page and head title based on the internal path. In your theme, you’ll find something like the following: ..."

Sort modules according to their features/functions

Posted by stevebayerin on October 13, 2008 at 4:51pm

Currently /modules lists modules in their own category or in the 'other' category.

How about a tab such as 'list by feature/function' which displays modules such as social networking modules, feed aggregation modules, etc.. and their add ons in their respective umbrella categories?

As an example,

Social networking modules such as Organic groups and User Relationships are displayed together under a umbrella term of 'Social Networking.'

Putting the tabs on the right

Posted by dmitrig01 on October 13, 2008 at 4:09am

title says it all
issue: http://drupal.org/node/320456
screenshot: http://img.skitch.com/20081013-dmf9d9m8293dujasi7qtmgq63y.jpg

Wordpress 2.7 vs Drupal 6.4 - Posting Content, Administering Content & Instant Installation

Posted by francewhoa on October 8, 2008 at 2:12am

I worked with both Wordpress and Drupal and in overall I really like Drupal better. After seeing the below video I think that there’s mainly 2 things that Wordpress 2.7 does better than Drupal though. They are first a better usability for posting and administering content, and then second a better usability for installing plugins and themes.

Administer - Themes - admin/build/themes page

Posted by sign on October 7, 2008 at 5:09pm

I would like to open a discussion after a chat on #drupal-usability channel about admin/build/themes and administration theme settings page.

Based on the fact that multiple theme functionality will be removed from D7 core and moved to contrib.

Here is the first draft we can start with: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30032901@N04/2922043198/sizes/o/

Three tabs
- List - list of installed themes where user can choose front-end and back-end themes

Drupal.org redesign prototype: Iteration #1

Posted by Mark Boulton on October 2, 2008 at 4:14pm

Hi All,

This week we are calling on feedback on the first iteration of prototyping.

To view the prototypes in their current form please go to: http://drupal.markboultondesign.com

Request for UI Advice for Comment Notify module

Posted by greggles on September 30, 2008 at 10:22pm

Hello, Usability folks.

I'm the maintainer of the comment notify module and I'm about to add two new features that I thought could use your guidance.

Comment notify currently adds a single checkbox to the comment form that allows both authenticated and anonymous commenters to subscribe to future comments on a node.

Send notification only for responses to a user's comment

Formal usability testing of Drupal in 2009

Posted by catch on September 30, 2008 at 5:50pm

Edit: This proposal has been approved by community vote as of 06 November 2008. See http://drupal.org/node/331079

UX sprint group 4 (Long Content Creation Form) progress

Posted by Krummrey on September 28, 2008 at 6:58pm

This is my first proposal for changes to the content creation form.

They are minor but yet I feel they will make things easier. I thought let's get a few basic things rolling before we get to the really hard stuff later on. Pease do comment on each of the four changes seperatly.

So here are my thoughts behind this mockup.

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Changing the color for "Create …"

11 usability principles for CMS products

Posted by francewhoa on September 26, 2008 at 4:34am

Here is an article of interest about CMS usability: 11 usability principles for CMS products, by James Robertson

Lot of great ideas to make Drupal easier to use.

Enjoy.

More user friendly way to set the date format?

Posted by stevebayerin on September 19, 2008 at 6:27pm

I usually edit node.tpl.php to control how the submission date is displayed.

How about a drag and drop interface with date settings instead of fixed presets for users to select how the date is displayed?

Quick UX review please:

Posted by yoroy on September 18, 2008 at 11:02am
Last updated by ultimateboy on Fri, 2009-02-20 18:01

Please review active core usability issues, specifically:

Process for working on the big UX issues

Posted by yoroy on September 17, 2008 at 9:06pm
Last updated by yoroy on Mon, 2009-09-07 08:44

This diagram summarizes the process we agreed on during our meeting (log)

Email notice for Closed Discussion

Posted by Anonymous on September 17, 2008 at 4:14pm

The email notification links for a closed discussion should not contain the link for the Post Reply since none can be added. This is confusing to any user but particularly someone new. Maybe the text should read "Post reply: Closed discussion".

D7 UX improvements IRC meeting

Posted by yoroy on September 15, 2008 at 9:32am

Start:

2008-09-16 20:15 - 21:30 Europe/Amsterdam

Event type:

Online meeting (eg. IRC meeting)

Let's organize ourselves and get more people involved with improving the D7 User Experience

Agenda:
- Nail down the top 10 of issues we want to work on.
- How to work on each issue: figure out the process.
- Who does what? Assign tasks within ux-team.
- Get started!

We'll meet in #drupal-usability

Hope to see you there.

Roy

Update Status Page

Posted by eclipsegc on September 15, 2008 at 5:05am

OK, so I've spent a bit of time rethinking the update status page... I think it's time for some feed back.

I've broken it into 4 areas: Critical Updates, Available Updates, New Versions, and Up To Date.

Critical Updates are those which need updating right now.
Available Updates are those for which an update exists but is not mandatory.
New Versions would be like an upgrade from imagecache to imagecache 2.
And Up To Date is obvious.

I don't have core showing on here, but it would appear in the category that applies to it (only ever Critical, New Version or Up To Date).

DRAIP - an old idea renewed

Posted by Ambrose on September 13, 2008 at 6:30am

DRAIP: Drupal Remote Administration Interface Protocol

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain, err drape, err draip!"
--- with appologies to L. Frank Baum :)

IRC Meeting: Work Organization Strategy

Posted by eigentor on September 12, 2008 at 12:42am

How about an IRC Meeting. I'd suggest the following date:
Tuesday, 23rd Sept. 20.00 CEST

And how about concentrating on Guidelines for our work organization.

There are some instant suggestions that come to my mind, which I'd like to propose, so maybe (maybe!) we come out with recommendations to everyone that proposes a task / an improvement:

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Form a small team and claim the task (1 Person can be a team, better two, still better mixed dev/ux)

Do user testing / collect user feedback from the very first draft

Drupal Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)

Posted by Anonymous on September 11, 2008 at 7:36pm

Update: This effort is now combined with the User Interface best practices wiki.

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