The primary focus of Drupal 7 was usability (other great things were achieved too). As a result, over the last couple years, we've been blessed to have many new UI designers join the Drupal community, and some long-time Drupalists got a renewed passion for creating better user experiences. Let's keep the momentum going by creating awesome UX in contrib modules and in the websites we build.
Designers and developers get frustrated when they have a vision for a great UI, but don't know whether it can be implemented or how to implement it. This session will present an overview and some of the gems of Drupal core's form, AJAX, and theme systems, and how these systems can be used to implement the desired UI. We'll look at the administrative UI of the Views module, and how it leverages these systems.
If you're a designer, come learn about what's easy and what's hard to build in Drupal 7, so you can minimize the pushback you'll receive from your developer colleague. If you're a developer, come learn that some things might not be as hard as you think, so you can minimize the pushback you have to give to your designer colleague.
Video on archive.org.
A mix of designers and developers would be ideal. Enough detail will be presented to be interesting to people who already have intermediate Drupal experience, but it would be great to have new Drupalists who've worked on UIs for other systems join too.
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What's with the buzz over the audio? Makes this awesome talk hard to listen to.