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Drupal usability and our development model

Submitted by nk on Sun, 2009-06-07 22:10

While relatively few people will come and join the debate over deep coding changes, seemingly everyone knows usability and has an opinion. Moreover, there are usable yardsticks of what makes code good -- is it speedy, easy to understand, explandable? Usability is "soft" science. And then it's front end changes which requires JS/CSS coders and those are more rare than PHP ones. So there are very few cooks trying to make a meal, not even being sure of what while there are a lot of people yelling at them of what to do.

If we want major usability changes, we need a solid plan and we need a company that pledges like 10-20 hours weekly of a JS programmer's time. Backend help is a lot easier to be found -- if these two would be there, I would be quite glad to help for example. Alternatively -- probably even more effective -- would be that once we have a plan, have a 3-4 day code sprint and do it. A theoretical time frame could be -- finish the plan by the end of July and have the sprint in August so it's still in time for the code freeze.

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Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2009-06-08 00:41.

The effectiveness of ui changes can be measured, but not as easily as running performance benchmarks or a suite of unit tests. You have to sit people down in front of the computer and see what happens. It does require a bit of nonautomatable effort, but can show if a ui has improved or not.

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Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2009-06-08 03:59.

With all the work going on to make drupal 7 more usable, is it possible that some of the usability work is improperly thought out and can result in a worse result?

Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 2009-06-08 06:07.

It's only possible if *you* do not contribute to the process now. You can't whine about it not getting better if you are not contributing to help.

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Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2009-10-09 18:49.

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With all the work going on to make drupal 7 more usable, is it possible that some of the usability work is improperly thought out and can result in a worse result?
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Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2009-10-30 06:24.

The usability of Drupal is on the performance level. We tried this one for many times and never encounter a problem on it. timeshare relief so thankful for drupal for the good things he could bring in our sights.