Matt and Mike talk with Acquia's Kevin Oleary and Ted Bowman about efforts to improve Drupal 8's usability and overall user experience. We talk about Drupal's processes, user testing, semantic versioning, preinstalled content, and more.
Episode Guests
Kevin Oleary
Director of Design within the Office of the CTO at Acquia, Kevin has his hands in the Spark distribution, the Drupal 8 toolbar, inline editing, responsive vertical tabs, and more.
Ted Bowman
Software engineer in the Office of the CTO at Acquia, Ted is the maintainer of Webform Conditional, EntityForms, Block Visibility Groups and more. Most recently he has been working on Drupal 8.2's settings tray and place block features.
Mentioned in this Episode
- Drupal Usability meeting recordings on Youtube
- Ted's Drupalcon Dublin session, "Drupal 8 Blocks: Who Knew?"
- Dries' blog post, "Turning Drupal outside-in"
- Edward Faulkner's Drupalcon New Orleans session, "Amazing User Experiences wit…
- Drupal.org issue, "Promote and allow downloading of vetted install profiles fro…
- Drupal Core Ideas