[drupal-docs] Day Two Computer Human Interaction 2005

[Moshe Weitzman]

Nice writeup, Kieran. Thanks.

> I attended the mid-day sessions on methods and usability.  The first 
> paper focused on how developers responded to usability problems versus 
> redesign proposals.   This is very interesting for the CivicSpace/Drupal 
> community because we are interested in learning how best to improve our 
> usability.   The results were that developers responded much better to 
> redesign proposals then they did to being told about usability 
> problems.   

YES. YES. A successful format for these redesigns has emerged. It 
includes screenshots with marked up comments. Here are some examples:

http://drupal.org/files/issues/005.kika.prettytables.png
http://drupal.org/node/15506/
http://drupal.org/node/19697 
http://drupal.org/files/issues/feature_module_improvements_1.pdf

> My inclination 
> based on this is to recommend CivicSpace hire another designer who can 
> provide more redesigns to all the Drupal developers to help improve the 
> usability.
> 

Another fine idea. I think it is worthwhile dedicating at least .5 
developer to implementing those redesigns. You could use on of your own 
staff or contract with Drupal developers ... Chris' node form redesign 
has gone unimplemented for a while now.

   For example, I could argue with Drupal
> developers that we need more user experience designers.  Or I could send 
> a picture of the large number of young women who seem to dominate 
> graduate work in user experience education to make my point.

Now that you put it that way ... LOL