[drupal-docs] Usability guidelines

[Chris Messina]

This is absolutely needed. I think that we should create a wiki for
this kind of thing. In fact, I talked to Veen and Doug Bowman about
this and they agreed that they'd help with a wiki. Thus is we can
create something like cmsdesignwiki.com, we could really get this
going.

Chris


On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 11:48:43 -0800, Neil Drumm <drumm at delocalizedham.com> wrote:
> I think we need to work on human interface guidelines. Think along the
> lines of
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/index.html
> http://usability.kde.org/hig/current/
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/
> 
> Apple's guide is probably one of the most important works in this field.
> I have seen other human interface guidelines, such as Java Swing,
> explicitly say that they don't cover some topics and Apple's book is
> where to look.
> 
> These guides are a great resource for the fundamentals, but we need
> something written for websites and specifically Drupal. I haven't seen
> any human interface guidelines for other web application frameworks,
> maybe Drupal would be the first.
> 
> As a start I have taken a couple stabs at writing some things. My latest
> work in progress is
> http://foo.delocalizedham.com/tmp/page.html
> 
> Which I see as the Drupal version of
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGWindows/chapter_8_section_3.html
> 
> This page is not nearly finished. I started with the diagrams and plan
> to describe them and more as I have time. Then specific elements of the
> pages, such as local tasks, should have more in depth sub-pages.
> 
> Previously I have tried making
> http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/drupal/contributions/sandbox/drumm/ui_guidelines/drupal_ui_guidelines.html
> 
> Which should be integrated into the future pages, but I'm not sure that
> bottom-up approach is right.
> 
> -Neil
> 
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