[drupal-devel] Fwd: OpenUsability Project Approved
Hello, I hope we can form a usability team soon, nothing official, just a bunch of people evaluating and coding drupal, to improve usability, as opposed to adding features, optimisation, cutting edge technology etc. My first action was to register at openusability.org, to see if we can attract some more interested people and to to find out how well that sites tools may aid us. Ber ---------- Doorgestuurd bericht ---------- Subject: OpenUsability Project Approved Date: maandag 19 september 2005 18:15 From: noreply@openusability.org To: ber@webschuur.com Your project registration for OpenUsability has been approved. Project Full Name: Drupal Please keep in mind that this site is still under construction. If you find a bug, miss some functionality or would like to discuss usability issues, please use the forums at http://www.openusability.org/forum/?group_id=6 . If you visit your own project page in OpenUsability while logged in, you will find additional menu functions on a tab labeled 'Admin'. We highly suggest that you now visit OpenUsability and create a public description for your project. This can be done by visiting your project page while logged in, and selecting the 'Admin' tab (or by visiting http://www.openusability.org/project/admin/?group_id=139 after login). Your project will also not appear in the Project Tree (Trove Software Map, primary list of projects hosted on OpenUsability which offers great flexibility in browsing and search) until you categorize it in the project administration screens after login: http://www.openusability.org/project/admin/group_trove.php?group_id=139 By default, a newly registered project is looking for a usability expert to support it. If you want to refine your project's open jobs, you can add and edit them in the 'Admin' tab after login: http://www.openusability.org/people/createjob.php?group_id=139 http://www.openusability.org/people/?group_id=139 So that people can find your project, you should create a public description now and categorize your project in the Trove Map. Enjoy the system, and please tell others about OpenUsability. Let us know if there is anything we can do to help you. -- the OpenUsability crew ------------------------------------------------------- Bèr -- [ Bèr Kessels | Drupal services www.webschuur.com ] Bèr -- [ Bèr Kessels | Drupal services www.webschuur.com ]
I hope we can form a usability team soon, nothing official, just a bunch of people evaluating and coding drupal, to improve usability, as opposed to adding features, optimisation, cutting edge technology etc.
I would participate in such a team. I work profesionally in the fields of user experience and web standards (html+css), and I'm an amateur programmer (php+mysql), having produced in my own things like http://www.popmadrid.com I can deliver wireframes and html+css code. I have been for some time trying to contribute with Drupal with tangible things (my company [1] has made some donations), but couldn't find the way to. So if some concise usability/ux improvements were listed, I would contribute. ciao álvaro ps. some sites I've developed with Drupal: http://www.popmadrid.com http://www.comunidadspaceofsound.com http://www.fulbright.es -- Álvaro Ortiz alvaro.ortiz@the-cocktail.com The Cocktail Avda. General Perón 6 28020 Madrid +34 91 567 06 05 wwww > http://the-cocktail.com blog > http://www.furilo.com
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. 2) The results of those interviews needs to be summarized and turned into a top ten list of user experience issues for administration. The list will be reviewed and prioritized by our User Experience design team. If you want to take a project and run with it here are some to evaluate. Drupal User Experience Infrastructure projects 3) Help improve the wireframe module so that developers can put up their designs as wireframes and get user feedback during the design phase. 4) Help with the remote user testing infrastructure. We don't have user testing labs so we have to use VNC and VOIP clients to allow developers to do remote usability testing. 5) We need to provide better administration help for all Drupal modules. Here are some examples: http://drupal.org/handbook/ modules. These could be improved with images, better layout, and CSS for administer >> help. Specific Usability projects that need to be completed. 6) Work with Neil Drumm to review the User Experience of the new updater in Drupal 4.7. Help him with wireframes and user testing. 7) Work with Adrian Rossouw to review the User Experience of the new installer. Help with developing task analysis, workflow, wireframes, design testing, and prototypes. 8) We need designs for the project module to display ratings and feedback for module evaluation. Develop wireframes to show how site developers can administer their sites more effectively with more relevant information in the module project page. 9) Develop concepts for explaining module dependencies. Provide wireframes. 10) Help with wireframes and design testing for the new proposed control panel interface for Drupal. I can help provide task analysis, and workflows. I'll need help with wireframes and navigation design. 11) Create a gallery demonstrating visual examples from Drupal of good user experience design and bad user experience design. This should provide examples that developers can point to in the same way that they point to coding standards. If any of these projects are interesting and you have time to contribute please let me know. Cheers, Kieran
ciao álvaro
ps. some sites I've developed with Drupal:
http://www.popmadrid.com http://www.comunidadspaceofsound.com http://www.fulbright.es
-- Álvaro Ortiz alvaro.ortiz@the-cocktail.com
The Cocktail Avda. General Perón 6 28020 Madrid +34 91 567 06 05
wwww > http://the-cocktail.com blog > http://www.furilo.com
I will try to get all this onto a public taks/todo list ASAP. sounds like there is enough work to be done :) Ber Op maandag 19 september 2005 19:28, schreef Kieran Lal:
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. 2) The results of those interviews needs to be summarized and turned into a top ten list of user experience issues for administration. The list will be reviewed and prioritized by our User Experience design team.
If you want to take a project and run with it here are some to evaluate. Drupal User Experience Infrastructure projects 3) Help improve the wireframe module so that developers can put up their designs as wireframes and get user feedback during the design phase. 4) Help with the remote user testing infrastructure. We don't have user testing labs so we have to use VNC and VOIP clients to allow developers to do remote usability testing. 5) We need to provide better administration help for all Drupal modules. Here are some examples: http://drupal.org/handbook/ modules. These could be improved with images, better layout, and CSS for administer >> help.
Specific Usability projects that need to be completed. 6) Work with Neil Drumm to review the User Experience of the new updater in Drupal 4.7. Help him with wireframes and user testing. 7) Work with Adrian Rossouw to review the User Experience of the new installer. Help with developing task analysis, workflow, wireframes, design testing, and prototypes. 8) We need designs for the project module to display ratings and feedback for module evaluation. Develop wireframes to show how site developers can administer their sites more effectively with more relevant information in the module project page. 9) Develop concepts for explaining module dependencies. Provide wireframes. 10) Help with wireframes and design testing for the new proposed control panel interface for Drupal. I can help provide task analysis, and workflows. I'll need help with wireframes and navigation design. 11) Create a gallery demonstrating visual examples from Drupal of good user experience design and bad user experience design. This should provide examples that developers can point to in the same way that they point to coding standards.
If any of these projects are interesting and you have time to contribute please let me know.
Cheers, Kieran
ciao álvaro
ps. some sites I've developed with Drupal:
http://www.popmadrid.com http://www.comunidadspaceofsound.com http://www.fulbright.es
-- Álvaro Ortiz alvaro.ortiz@the-cocktail.com
The Cocktail Avda. General Perón 6 28020 Madrid +34 91 567 06 05
wwww > http://the-cocktail.com blog > http://www.furilo.com Bèr -- [ Bèr Kessels | Drupal services www.webschuur.com ]
Kieran Lal wrote:
1) We need to complete interviews for new administrative users. I have completed 12 so far, but they were all with heavy administration users.
I may start doing live interviews with some average admin users I know. Do you have a script or set of questions I should use?
10) Help with wireframes and design testing for the new proposed control panel interface for Drupal. I can help provide task analysis, and workflows. I'll need help with wireframes and navigation design.
Working on this would be interesting. But let's have #1 (and #2) first. ps. Should I use drupal-devel for talking about this? Maybe a drupal-ux would invite more people to contribute on this matters? alvaro -- http://furilo.com
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. Cheers, Kieran
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.
Cheers, Kieran Bèr -- [ Bèr Kessels | Drupal services www.webschuur.com ]
Hi, here is the short version of the interview questions:
Hi, I have translated into spanish the interview questions (and the first interviews are in process!); if someone is interested in them just ask. BTW, how/where/in which format I should send the answers? álvaro ps. ux drupal kit! -- http://www.furilo.com
On Sep 23, 2005, at 6:42 AM, Álvaro Ortiz wrote:
BTW, how/where/in which format I should send the answers?
A text file would be great. Send to me and I'll aggregate. The goal is to take my dozen interviews plus a few of yours and revisit the questions and modify our research. Once we think we have good language for asking questions we will go to a survey. The survey will help us prioritize the administration user experience issues. Dries and our team of user experience professionals will prioritize the issues. We can announce which user experience issues we are tackling in the Drupal 4.7 code freeze and rally our resources to solve very specific issues. Cheers, Kieran
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Álvaro Ortiz