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Drupal.org - What we learned from the Community Wireframing Project
I thought you might be interested to know a little about what we did with all the wireframes people submitted for the Drupal Redesign Project.
Around 30 wireframes were submitted, mostly to the Flickr group, but also on Drupal Groups and other locations (linked to in the comments of the original post). I think this is a [...]
Drupal.org - more thoughts on the Information Architecture (Part 1 - Projects, Downloads etc.)
Thanks to everyone who gave feedback on my initial thoughts on the information architecture - it was certainly food for thought and, as a result of that and some more work on our part, we’ve moved on a little in our thinking - I’d like to share some thoughts and some questions with you now, [...]
Drupal.org - what makes up Drupal.org Community?
I’m going to call on your expertise again to help me think through an issue for the Drupal.org redesign. This time we’re thinking about community.drupal.org, which is theoretically the community ‘hub’ of drupal.org.
At the time I proposed it, I imagined it being a place where both Groups and Forums would live and potentially also Planet [...]
Drupal.org - what we learned from the card sort
If you’ve been following this project you’ll know that we’ve been doing an online card sort recently to help inform the information architecture for drupal.org. To date we have had more than 200 people participate in this card sort exercise, which is a tremendous effort and a bucketload of data! Thank you all!
In particular we [...]
Drupal.org - Initial thoughts on the Information Architecture
Firstly, I want to start by thanking you all for your participation to date in this project - it has been beyond helpful! Of course, now I’m going to ask for more, as we move forward to working out what the Information Architecture for the new Drupal.org is going to be.
If you have been following [...]
Drupal.org - One site or many?
One of the information architecture questions we need to resolve for Drupal.org is whether we try to make it one cohesive website experience, or whether (as it is now) there is a ‘family’ of mini-sites that make up the online experience of Drupal.
The current family consists of drupal.org, groups.drupal.org, api.drupal.org, association.drupal.org and more (including a proposed [...]
Drupal.org - Help Overhaul the Information Architecture - participate in our online card sort!
Continuing in the community led approach to the experience design, let’s get started taking a look at the information architecture.
A really useful exercise to help understand how people organise, understand and label/name information is to do a card sort. (Ref: A definitive guide to card sorting)
As we’re scattered all over the globe, we’ll have to [...]
Drupal.org - come wireframe with me!
There is a design game that I like to play when I’m working face to face with my client (and when there aren’t thousands of stakeholders!) which involves everyone on the project sitting down together and individually sketching up some wireframes that then get shared back into the group.
Aside from being good fun, it is [...]
Outsiders and Insiders - Understanding Drupal.org users
OK, there are two important first steps you need to take when contemplating a design (or, in this case, a redesign) - understanding what the business/organisation wants the design to achieve, and understanding who your audience/customers/users/potential users are, and what they want to achieve, what their goals are.
A really common way to capture this information [...]
DRAFT: Drupal.org Experience Strategy
The redesign project for Drupal.org will be guided by an experience strategy that will inform our decision making in all aspects of the redesign and which will, we hope, be able to be used as ‘a star to sail our ship by’ (as Jesse James Garrett would say) - as a clear objective to design [...]
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