[drupal-docs] Usability experimentfor Drupaldocumentation-pleasereview

Sat Apr 30 23:33:10 UTC 2005

Anisa Define Funny
Ron

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From: Anisa [mailto:mystavash at animecards.org] 
Sent: Saturday, April 30, 2005 9:06 AM
To: drupal-docs at drupal.org
Subject: Re: [drupal-docs] Usability experimentfor
Drupaldocumentation-pleasereview

Looks pretty funny in IE too...

Anisa.

Ron Mahon wrote:

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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