Thoughts on Drupal 8 UX Strategy

A presentation on the user experience strategy of Drupal 8. Presented at BADCamp 2011.

Transcript

1. Drupal’s core product Bojhan Somers BADCamp | 21 Oktober 2011
2. Drupal is difficult
3. Drupal
4. But still no direction
5. What defines us? Keep your product simple. Know what you do and do it better than anybody.
6. Technology centric
7. Site building tools
8. Audience: VCR kid By http://www.flickr.com/photos/paulm/2253776428/
9. A hybrid, Framework + Product
10. Focus of Drupal 8 Focus is also saying, no to many of the other good ideas
11. Blocks & menu’s Content types & fields Modules & themes
12. Rusty tools
13. Blocks & Menu’s
14. Placing blocks, front- end vs. admin UI
15. Where do they go?
16. Picture of drag and drop blocks manager
17. Content types & fields
18. Overwhelming and disconnected UI
20. Modules & themes
21. Enabling, updating configuring is hard
22. Finding the right module or theme
24. Blocks & menu’s Content types & fields Modules & themes
26. One usecase
27. I Us World Designer Builder Developer
28. I Us World Tumblr Drupal SDL Tridion Wordpress Plone Ning
29. Snowman
30. Making it happen! Small teams, scheduled initiatives
31. Growing up, faster than our resources
32. Our single biggest problem….
33. Lack of developers
34. Small teams of amazing people
35. Opportunity
36. Where to go to help! d.o/node/1316518 – Module & Themes d.o/node/548778 – Field UX g.d.o/node/160144 – Blocks & Menu UX BOF – Friday afternoon & Sunday
37. Thanks! Questions? @Bojhan