Drupal 6 to Drupal 7

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Drupal 7 & The Future Bojhan Somers

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My talk at Drupalcon Washington DC in 2009 about moving from a code perspective, toward more of a design perspective in our workflow.

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Drupal 7 & The FutureBojhan Somers

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Usability TestingUniversity of Baltimore

• Confirmed issues

• Found new issues

• Indexed a lot of issues

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Usability Team

• Bojhan (Bojhan) Somers,

• Roy (yoroy) Scholten,

• Brad (beeradb) Bowman,

• Nathaniel (catch) Catchpole

• Many more contributors

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What have we been working on?

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Visuals in D7 core patches

Before and after screenshots

After

Before

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Context

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Involving designers

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Design before coding

“Mediocore Design”

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Informed design decisions

“When you start looking at a problem, and it seems really simple with all these simple solutions, you don’t really understand the complexity of the problem.” - Steve

Jobs

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Usablity Expert

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What will we be working on?

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Looking at the bigger picture

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Increasing design incentives

Getting better at designing

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Supporting design iniatives

Usability testingNew designers/usability experts ect

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Join us!#drupal-usability groups.drupal.org

Core issue tags Usability, UBUserTesting2009,