Imaginary users can save your Drupal site

jp.stacey — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 15:10:15 +0000

Type: Session in official program

Day: Thursday, 26. august 2010

Time: 14:45-15:45

19 Acquia

User personas - fake users everyone has a hand in fleshing out - can ensure your site's functionality and usability and speed up feature launch

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

None of these people exist, but that doesn't actually matter

Drupal lends itself well to modular, separately deployable code. This means you can often reduce quite large Drupal-based projects to sets of minimum deployable features (MDFs) - informally speaking, chunks of functionality which get a particular job done, and don't look weird on their own - which quickly start to take shape as Drupal development plans.

Additional Presenters: Rich Middleditch

Don't design websites. Design web SYSTEMS!

Todd Nienkerk — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 01:50:47 +0000

Type: Session in official program

Day: Tuesday, 24. august 2010

Time: 16:00-17:00

20 Valhalla

Designers have tremendous control over the functionality of the site. Developers, after all, look at wireframes and comps to determine what a feature should do. So designers: Stop thinking about websites and start thinking about web systems. Learn how the web chefs at Four Kitchens design the look and feel of some of the world's largest Drupal sites — er, systems.

45 minutes (+15 minutes Q&A)

Anyone can design a website. Design a web system!

Drupal's theme layer is very flexible and can accommodate just about any web design. It's important for designers to remember, however, that they're not really creating a page — they're building a complete system to house the all of the site's content.

In this session, we will talk about concepting and creating a Drupal-optimized design.

Image credit: agjimenez on Flickr (CC BY-ND).

Additional Presenters: Aaron Stanush

DrupalCon Copenhagen August 23-27 2010 - usability

Imaginary users can save your Drupal site

Don't design websites. Design web SYSTEMS!