Ber, This does sound interesting. It has its perks and its downfalls, but all in all, it will remove clutter from the site for non-admin users. However - what would happen if you have more than one admin in different levels (or roles)? My point here being - rather than make a "admin" role, rather make a "user" role. But this is already accomplished. By assigning proper rights to your users, this would be a non-issue, or am I misunderstanding your request? Regards, Kobus
berdrupal@tiscali.be 9/21/2005 8:46 PM >>> Something I always liked to know is: Do you ever (want to) administer drupal with your default login. (i.e. how many people have a separate account to administer)
I think an well founded answer to that will make our future choices a lot easier: Does the admin menu need to be part of navigation menu, How well would an admin theme help (for the record, i think admin themes are not a good idea), would a default administer role help etc. Ber Op woensdag 21 september 2005 19:45, schreef Kieran Lal:
On Sep 19, 2005, at 10:28 AM, Kieran Lal wrote:
On Sep 19, 2005, at 9:45 AM, Álvaro Ortiz wrote:
So if some concise usability/ux improvements were listed, I would contribute.
Here is a list projects for Administration User Experience that we need help with. 1) We need to complete interviews for new administrative users. I have completed 12 so far, but they were all with heavy administration users.
Hi, here is the short version of the interview questions: Audience research Phone/email interview questions Drupal administration 1)How would you describe yourself as a Drupal administrator? Which version of Drupal do you run? What additional modules/themes do you use? 2) How often do you use Drupal administration? How long do you administer your site? 3) Can you access your Drupal administration menus? 4) What are the most common tasks you do with your site as an administrator? What other tasks do you do less frequently?(Write both answers down as a list in order) 5) Which of the common tasks you mentioned earlier are easy to do? Why are they easy? (Get into detail) 6) Which tasks are hard? Why are those tasks hard?(Go into detail) 7) How about other important tasks you have not mentioned? 8) What is the one thing that would make your job as a Drupal administrator easier? Review your interpretations.
If you would prefer to just do one or two long interviews then I can share the long interview questions which really follow the same format but have lots of detailed sub questions. When you are picking your candidates to interview check that they don't use Drupal administration for an hour everyday. I have twelve of those people and we really need a better sampling of new inexperienced users.
I am going to try and get a post up on Drupal.org about a plan for 4 weeks of User Experience work.
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