Re: [themes] although it’s a very powerful CMS, I didn’t have the greatest time with it as it came to be one of the most cumbersome and roundabout pieces of software...

[Kieran Lal]

On Jun 14, 2006, at 9:47 AM, Bèr Kessels wrote:
> Hope this helps a little.  Bèr

When we did the administration user experience survey with almost 900  
respondents it helped to focus improvements in Drupal and many many  
user experience improvements were added for Drupal admins.  Multiple  
comment administration and Blocks by Roles(now in 4.8) were obviously  
important but just not a priority for core developers until we had  
some data, not just opinion.

Drupal's roadmap is to win in the battle of the "easiest to use CMS  
wins" all else being equal.

The admin survey showed that fixing themes was the hardest thing to  
do for Drupal administrators.  What we need are more anecdotes,  
similar to what Ber showed us so we start a parallel effort to  
PHPTemplate 2.0.  Anecdotes can lead to designer interviews which can  
lead to broad surveys.

Broad surveys can lead to user centered design.

Ber if you want to do some interviews with designers to start a user  
centered design process that will merge with PHPTemplate 2.0 then  
that's interesting to me and CivicSpace will back those efforts.

Kieran

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