contrib-ui

Hi everyone, I just created a new feature request for D8: Separate User Profiles and User Settings because is one of the things I always end up changing in every project.

The main idea is to create a Settings page to hold all the account and user settings and separate it from the Profile page. Also, the settings page should be divided into small sections of settings to avoid having a long form with multiple settings in it.

I also created a sandbox project at http://drupal.org/sandbox/lelizondo/1098228 for D7 to test what I'm proposing.

This post is my comments on various Drupal usability matters I spotted during Bay Area Drupal Camp 2010 (BADCamp) presentations, as inspired by jenlampton's talk WordPress is better than Drupal, developers take note.

Topics about the usability of Drupal remind me on the most recent Steve Jobs' speech against Android and Open Source community over iOS and integrated solutions: http://tinyurl.com/steve-jobs-vs-android

I don't know how many of you guys will read this and find it interesting, but I think this is a pretty good question on usability. Steve Jobs labelled here the Open Source solutions as "Fragmented" (which is fairly true), and claims it will clearly lose battle against "Integrated" solutions (which is an argument I hear quite frequently lately in many different forms).

Hello,

I'm working on developing a "simple mode" API for Drupal which will allow site builders to switch between simple and advance user interface or otherwise hide advance features.

I spent some time reviewing UI design work on Views 3 (And Acquia Gardens "Data pages") UI concepts:

• "Views 3 UX Season is open", February 2010, Yoroy
• "Views 3 UX workflows and ideas, round 1", April 2010, Rasskull
• "View3 UI explorations, part 2", July 2010, Yoroy
• Acquia Gardens "Data Page" concept mockups, Jeff Noyes?
• "More Views 3 concepts", July 2010, Jeff Noyes

NOTE: I have not read all of (or even very much of) the related discussion, so am likely missing important developments.

There are some great "sky-high" ideas in most of these. However I think it's likely that all of them will run into issues as or more significant than the current UI, in that either;

• They will be be too restrictive upon advanced functionality and features and make them difficult or hacky to include in the (in the case of Gardens, that is likely intentional, as advanced features are probably not supported);
• They will have similar types of unforeseen issues to the current UI. Subtle and seemingly minor nuances or even features that actually make a big impact on the UX.

Hagen Graf did an excellent live usability test at the unconference immediately before DrupalCon Copenhagen. He's a a tech writer well versed in all three of Joomla, Wordpress and Drupal, so he was able to draw out the strength and weaknesses of getting started with each platform.

I've since started designing a variant of views that's specific to DrupalGardens, but thought some of you might like to see the concepts I came up with for the non DrupalGardens version of Views..

The http://drupal.org/project/author_select module is up which transforms the autocomplete Authored By field to an HTML <select> widget (which seems to be much easier for clients to get a handle on).

I'd love it if you guys could try it out on a couple sites and let me know if you have any problems. It's really simple, but has made life a lot easier for a couple of our clients.

I am looking for any Drupal community site that has a multi-question rating system. Actually, I’m looking for Contractors who have built Drupal communities with multi-question rating systems.

We want to build a Drupal community where the members rate or evaluate services. Not a simple voting plugin where we can only ask one question, but a series of questions. We need to be able to ask several questions and our members will be able to give a numerical value (1-10) AND have the option to comment on each question.