Drupalcon Amsterdam

Engaging design and UX contributors

Dani Nordin @danigrrl

dani@tzk-design.com

Hi, I’m Dani.

❖ UX Designer and Researcher, Bentley User Experience Center

❖ Senior UX Designer, Patients Like Me

❖ UX Lead, Drupal Community Tools Team

❖ Co-Organizer, Design 4 Drupal Boston

❖ UXD Teacher, General Assembly

❖ Author, Drupal for Designers (O’Reilly, 2012)

❖ Mother of this adorable little diva

❖ danigrrl on Twitter and D.o

Yep, that was my face in the keynote.

What happens when a designer

goes to a contribution sprint?

So wait…

Where do I put this now?

“Put it in the Issue Queue.”

Fun Activity Time

Find the Issue Queue

You have 60 seconds.

Creating Consensus: CSS classes in front-end Code in Drupal 8

!

Drupalcon Austin

June 2, 2014

Roadblocks faced by UX contributors

❖ Getting feedback from EVERYONE in the community, not just the high-volume contributors

❖ Issue Queue can be overwhelming for design discussions

❖ Perception that non-code contributions won’t be valued or appreciated

❖ Excessive need for rationale

Taking this home:

What are the opportunities?

Dani Nordin @danigrrl

tzk-design.com

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