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LukeW on mobile first

Submitted by jeffnoyes
on Thu, 12/15/2011 - 6:45pm

Lots of great data in this presentation on trends, mobile usage and best practices in mobile design

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Mobile

Creating tabbed admin interfaces in Drupal using views

Submitted by jeffnoyes
on Tue, 12/13/2011 - 9:54pm

Recently I tried creating a tabbed admin interface in Views - similar to the Content view where 3 tabs exist: Content, Commments, Media. It took a bit of futzing and reading, but ultimately found this:

  1. create page with path "parent" and with content that you would normally have for default tab, don't set up menu settings
  2. create page with path "parent/child1" and with content that you would normally have for default tab (SAME as "parent"), set it to be default tab and tell views Parent menu item: Already exists
  3. create page with path "parent/child2" and with content you want, set it to be menu
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drupal
Views
Tabs
admin interface

The Mobile Only Internet Generation

Submitted by jeffnoyes
on Mon, 11/07/2011 - 10:00pm

Great slideshare with lots of useful data on mobile internet usage

The Mobile Only Internet Generation
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drupal
What is drupal
101

Drupalcon london presentation

Submitted by jeffnoyes
on Tue, 09/06/2011 - 5:10pm

This is a video recording of the session I gave in London titled Creating and Measuring the User Experience. Unfortunately, I ran out of time and failed to show case studies revealing how we've made Drupal better, but I'll follow up with a blog post.

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session
drupalcon
presentation
ux

Drupal 8 usability wish list

Submitted by jeffnoyes
on Thu, 08/11/2011 - 2:06pm

Drupal has entered it's 8th cycle.  As such, Im regularly asked what I think the top usability issues are. Honestly, this is the first time I've put them down on paper, so this is a bit of a swag, but here it goes...

  1. Connect the dots.  This would be my over-arching theme of Drupal 8.  D7 gave us a hint of this where links to configure and permissions were provided in context after enabling a module, but there's so much more to do.  One example of this is creating a menu item through the menu itself; you have to know the URL in which you want to link to.
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drupal
Usability
top10

Fusion core video

Submitted by jeffnoyes
on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 6:15pm

Nice video put out by topnotch themes demonstrating the Fusion theme with Skinr.

Fusion Core Demo from Jeremy Caldwell on Vimeo

Using views, relationships and attachments

Submitted by jeffnoyes
on Tue, 04/05/2011 - 6:13pm

This is a really excellent article that breaks down Drupal's Views module in to a digestible, easy to follow format.  Its using an older version of Views, but still really good.
 
http://drupaleasy.com/blogs/ultimike/2009/07/using-views-relationships-a...

Drupal Gardens - The best free Web site building service on the planet

Submitted by jeffnoyes
on Thu, 03/24/2011 - 1:57pm

Drupal Gardens is the latest online site creation tool.   It's not just any tool though - it's based on Drupal.  Not familar with Drupal?   In a nutshell, Drupal is becoming a phenominon because of its power, flexibility, rapid innovation, community and low cost.  Looking at the landscape today, it's clear why Drupal is taking off.

Site owners and builders across the globe are using small site building services like Wordpress, Joomla, Squarespace, Expression Engine etc, as well as enterprise services like Jive, Documentum, Sharepoint, etc.    In doing so, they're hitting hitting walls.

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Drupal Gardens

Web App Stories with Jared Spool - Mind the Gap

Submitted by jeffnoyes
on Mon, 03/21/2011 - 12:37pm

 

A cool video by Jason Robb illustarting Jared Spool's master class example.

<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/21072498" width="400" height="225" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/21072498">Web App Stories with Jared Spool - Mind the Gap</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/uie">User Interface Engineering</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.</p>

 

 

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