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Talk talk in Dublin

Roy — Wed, 14 Sep 2016 22:15:08 +0000

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Looking forward to meetings

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I think in between the conversations with people I’ll talk with some other folks and have some chats besides that.

Very likely topics

Media
Content workflow
Data modelling
Sample content
Core ideation

I’ll make sure to share any visual notes fast this time…

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Drupalcon

Drupal UX meeting, 13 September 2016

Roy — Tue, 13 Sep 2016 22:35:14 +0000

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“Kevin, talk sample content to me”

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Another fun live hangout with Drupal UX peoples. We review and discuss current issues and provide feedback or guidance where needed. These hangouts are recorded and available on YouTube. I try to link to the right segment in the recording when updating issues with team feedback.

Discussed today:

A separate queue for Ideas

I marked Agile process for bigger changes in core (Part A: Ideation) RTBC today. It’ll be open for final thoughts for a few more days. Looks like we’ll have a dedicated place to work through ideas soon.

Sort of like a Display Suite lite in core

Or as we say: Add ability for entity view modes to switch between two hard-coded layouts.
Eaton called it, this is very inside baseball, but adding layout options for arranging the fields in your content type is super exciting.

Media library design

We have an issue going that collects examples of media library features in other systems. Super useful. We (you!) can start sketching out Drupal specific user interface screens and flows now and post them there. (This is one of those issues that would start in the above mentioned Ideas queue).

Sample content

There’s Lee’s post about what it means to provide the tools that enable you to add your sample content to your flavour of Drupal installation. And then there’s adding some (hardcoded?) sample content to core itself, because, well, onboarding. Starting with the latter, that means figuring out what sample content to add in the first place.
The brand new Drupal user guide uses the example of a website for a farmer’s market. Wouldn’t it be great if our sample content and configuration would support that scenario? Yes, yes it would.

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drupalplanet

Prioritize your work as a product designer

Roy — Sat, 10 Sep 2016 15:00:20 +0000

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trade-offs. you have to make them

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Thank you Derec for opening up an interesting discussion on prioritizing product design work. The group widenend the scope a bit (no surprise there) and focussed on how we can help stakeholders express the impact, relevance of their idea compared to all the other new feature or improvement proposals.

Look up: RIC/E, OKR's and maybe even NPS.

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Making possible needs examples

Roy — Fri, 09 Sep 2016 20:53:56 +0000

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A platform needs a killer app

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Tim blogs about core development being hard. Lee talks about adding sample content. Jeff’s comment there (the first) gives a good example of why core dev is so difficult:

…what we need is a tool that allows modules or profiles to optionally install content after their other setup steps

It’s never just the direct application X or feature Y that gets added. It’s the tools that enable X or Y that get added to core. And for a long time this generalized approach was considered enough.

What’s changing is that on top of the enabling tech we now strive to also add a more opiniated example, a more concrete and specific expression of those new capabilities. I’m reminded of of Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant: “A platform needs a killer app.”

It’s interesting to see this shift in balance and I’m curious to see how it will play out.

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