Mark Boulton on Progress on Drupal 7 User Experience

Mark Boulton gives a progress update on the Drupal 7 User Experience Project (aka #D7UX) and then talks about:

• Tension between Open Source Developers and Designers within Drupal
• Growing pains associated with serving a broader audience
• Challenges of iterative design
• Some of their Design Principles and User Experience Strategy
• Next steps for fully implementing the D7UX during the code slush period
• Reflections on working on a design project where the client is an entire community
• And why he's grown more as a designer over the past year than any other professional year

For more information:

• D7UX blog
• Mark's post on Design in Open Source
• Earl Miles: An observation about Designers versus Developers
• Bojhan Somers' Reflections on a D7UX Project
• UPDATE: chx on the communication failures through D7UX
• Larry Garfield's proposal for a Human Interface Guidelines document

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