Overview: focus on the site builders, themers and those interested in delivering a killer user experience both for Drupal itself and for their own sites.
Goals
- Attract more designers to Drupal
- Improve Drupal’s visual design
Lesson and session ideas
Graphic design: “Drupal for Designers”
These sessions covers topics that relate more towards creating the visual design of a Drupal site.
- Designing for Drupal (Structure of a Drupal site, visualizing your design in Drupal…)
- Introduction to Drupal for designers (including the most important contrib modules)
- Drupal-friendly CSS tricks (form elements, menus, etc)
- Making a Drupal site not look like one – new ways of theming common UI elements
Usability/Interaction design: “User friendly Drupal”
- Usability bling in Drupal 6
- User Experience Testing
- Interaction design with JavaScript in Drupal 6
- Building intuitive forms (layout, multistep, custom widgets, …)
- Brainstorming: An interface for media handling
- Learning jQuery
Resources
- Design and Usability track on Drupal Groups
- User Experience and Design (DrupalCon Paris)
- Design & Usability (DrupalCon DC)
- Showcases, user experience and design track (DrupalCon Szeged)
- Design and user experience track sessions (DrupalCon Boston)
- Design and user experience track descriptions (DrupalCon Boston)
Program Leads
- TBD