UX topics and priorities for Drupal 8

Last updated November 23, 2011.

Drupal Core

Help Jeremy build sites.

Content creation experience

Connect the dots for Verity, so that she can get her new content out and manage existing stuff.

Field UI
The Field UI has fundamental issues that cannot be solved by tweaking the existing interface. This needs a major overhaul along the lines of Form Builder Field UI.

1. Develop a prototype that uses formbuilder for field editing and display.
2. Accessibility review and development, to make this interface truly accessible
3. Continuously usabilty test this interface, to understand its use and change accordingly early on

Extending Drupal experience
Extending Drupal core is a hard task, people lack direction on d.o as to which modules are good and will support their use case.

1. Bring the project browser into core
2. Streamline update manager tasks.

Mobile, Internationalization, Blocks & Menu's....
Restructure and reformat the administration tools for better accessibility and usability on portable devices like mobile phones and tablets.

1. Discuss UX framework, for mobile UX in the D8MUX initiative.
2. Start optimizing core for mobile, by following mobile issue tag.

Make the initial install a more focussed application
Drupal core lacks focus in any of its core install profiles. The Snowman initiative plans to change this and provide a profile focussed on building a small community website.

1. Research and discuss usecases for snowman.

Drupal community

Grow the team. Keep working and educating the UX design process.
The UX-team is very small and we want to educate more developers and engage more designers. We intend to grow the team by putting out resources on how we do design, but also actively engaging the whole Drupal community in this process.

1. Update Pattern library, to educate developers
2. Hold Bi-weekly UX meetings in #drupal-usability in IRC on Mondays at UTC 8PM (4PM EST)

Improve the social architecture for community collaboration

Make contributing more awesome for more people. Humanize community tools and processes. The Prairie initiative focuses on allowing for easier overview of all that is going on in a given topic area.

1. Design topic pages for the prairie initiative
2. Develop initiative pagesto replace [meta] issues