[drupal-docs] Usability experiment for Drupaldocumentation-pleasereview

[Ron Mahon]

Thanks Kieran
I was not aware of some of them. Although W/O is a old technology (I used
for over 25 years) and doesn't have a big roll in the object world. My
biggest success with it was not on the technical side.

It was very effective in commutating ideas and structure between end users
and the design group. I taught it to a group of managers so they could
commutate there needs to me and the It department. They went on to use it
for every thing imaginable, marketing campaigns, construction, etc. The IT
departments. hated it?

IMHO this is sort of the problem here. We have such a diverse group with so
many semantic and cultural differences. That some times I feel that were
saying the same thing and not knowing it. 

Maybe a UN approach is a good solution.(teach every body a new language)
  
I have found a new version of the program with exports to xml, http: in
addition is inter active. 

I found it very helpful to be able to look at the whole picture. I was able
to reduce the number of books in the proposed layout.

The display is broken in Firefox so you'll have to suffer with IE. You can
find it at
http://tech-mall.com/design/drupal-docs.html

Click on the "+" to expand The "-" to contract

With apologies to Anisa for not following the style guide. Must mean I can't
do two thing at once.

I was not concerned with the data only the structure. 
I put some data in as a guide or example. 

When every one agrees with the structure. And we get the results for the
card deck sort I will put in the data.

Feedback please.
 
Best regards
Ron

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-----Original Message-----
From: Kieran Lal [mailto:kieran at civicspacelabs.org] 
Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 4:06 PM
To: drupal-docs at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [drupal-docs] Usability experiment for
Drupaldocumentation-pleasereview

Ron,
	that looks great.  Hopefully, the feedback from the experiment will
help provide some insight into how people think the documentation should be
organized and we can respond accordingly.

There are a number of tools that are used to visually explain information
architecture.  If someone wanted to help make it look even better you can
get tools here: http://iabook.com/template.htm

Cheers,
Kieran

On Apr 28, 2005, at 12:54 PM, Ron Mahon wrote:

> I agree with most of what's being proposed but nothing beats action. 
> It also
> points out the flaws in design. I will have more to say about this 
> shortly.
>
> In the mean time I have reverted to a old structured design mythology. 
> This
> will Allow us to look at the structure of the documents with out 
> worrying about how and what. It will also show us the depth. And 
> whether it is possible to meat the depth requirements.
>
> The layout look is here http://tech-mall.com/drupal/?q=drupal-docs at 
> the test site.
> You can right click on the screen shots and steal them.
>
> Ron
>
> PS:I have not included all the features of this tool, because it did 
> not seam necessary.
> Should any one be interested you can read more about it here 
> http://www.kenorrinst.com/wo1.html
>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kieran Lal [mailto:kieran at civicspacelabs.org]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 27, 2005 10:23 PM
> To: drupal-docs at drupal.org
> Subject: [drupal-docs] Usability experiment for Drupal 
> documentation-pleasereview
>
> Hi, the usability experiment I will be conducting will help us to 
> identify how users think the documentation should be grouped.
>
> You can see the experiment here:
> http://www.websort.net/dev/sort.php?studyname=drupaldocumentation.
> Sign in with the name test if you want to check it out.
>
> The latest thread has us down to 5 categories:
> -Getting Started and Using a Drupal Website -Administering a Drupal 
> Website -Developing for Drupal -About Drupal -About the Handbook I am 
> going to suggest we add the Wiki as a major documentation group based 
> on feedback from the survey.
>
> I have a list of 61 items which I believe is too long, but is based on 
> feedback that I have gotten in two rounds of user interviews and mining
> the drupal-docs list.   I would appreciate it if someone would help
> review it to narrow the number of items they think are redundant, but 
> still reflect the needs of users.  If the experiment is good for users 
> then I will launch it.
>
> Cheers,
> Kieran
>
> List of document instances to be sorted.
>
> Event tutorial
> General info
> Drupal Distribution comparison chart
> system-level docs
> system level tasks needed to install
> System Requirements
> Installation Process
> Installation best practices
> Core vs contributed applications/modules How to install a contributed 
> module How to upgrade Drupal core.
> How to upgrade Drupal with modules and themes.
> How to back up a site
> How to restore a site
> How to move a site
> What settings are where
> Initial configuration
> Advanced configuration
> Blocks
> What are the core applications?
> What do the core applications do?
> Configuring core applications
> Installing new applications
> Description of contributed applications Core theme documentation 
> Explanation on theme engines Installing a new theme How a theme 
> affects your site Making a new theme Trouble shooting guide Trouble 
> shooting FAQ Development on Drupal Learning how Drupal is put 
> together?
> How to make blocks
> How to make modules
> How to make themes
> Translator
> Marketing
> User Experience, usability, user testing Security Performance Testing 
> Drupal core concepts Drupal walkthroughs Theme developers guide 
> Handbook for using
> application(module) Common tasks Beginner tutorials Data relationship 
> diagram Step by step page view generation Module dev troubleshooting 
> guide Theme tutorial Architecture overview Walkthrough of example 
> sites Flash tutorials Taxonomy tutorial Translator guide Advanced 
> module development tutorial Guide to combining modules What can I do 
> with Drupal?
> How does Drupal work?
>
>
>
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