Drupal 7 UX topics and issues

Last updated April 27, 2011.

User Experience is a huge priority for Drupal 7. You can follow Mark Boulton and Leisa Reichelt's progress and participate at the Drupal 7 User Experience Project and the Drupal Usability Group.

Relevant tags:

• Usability
• ui-pattern
• UBUserTesting2009
• d7ux

Critical Drupal 7:UX freeze

1. #473268: D7UX: Put edit links on everything
2. #497804: Search entities (nodes, terms, etc.) within the administrative interface
3. #594660: Rename default menu names
4. #614418: Redesign 'Recent comments' block for use on dashboard.
5. #337947: Correct whitespace issue for 'recent content block' in dashboard

IA

6. #591682: Categories below "Configuration" break APIs on rename/relocation and do not account for all possibilities
7. #594908: Weight categories on Configuration & Modules correctly

Module page

8. #598758: Modules page: add link to its settings page for each module
9. #396478: Searchable modules page

All of CCK UI?

Major usability issues

1. Finding "page" content once created (#395968: Remove the 'Page' content type from default install profile)
2. Administrative landing page is overwhelming (#546956: [meta-issue] Overhaul of Information Architecture)
3. Relationship between menus and blocks is not apparent (UB2009)

Moderate usability issues

• #473268: D7UX: Put edit links on everything
• #538904: D8UX: Redesign Modules Page

Low hanging fruit

• #412782: Installing Drupal 7 error handling is different from D6
• #394422: Taxonomy terms should be listed in order they are entered

Improve admin sections and pages:

• #229193: Incremental filter for permissions page
• #301902: Allow more users to see the node admin page

Improve node/add/X:

• #322703: Use on/off checkbox to enable node's menu item