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Too Much and Never Enough: What is the Content Curation Cure for Drupal? mhackner Why is Pandora the most popular way to listen to music online, and the number one competitor to NPR? Because it can guess what you want, when you want it, using information you and the broader... Intermediate User Experience (UX)
The (Digital) Place You Love Is Gone: Designing for Permanence jsokohl So many times we design for new users, with only a passing nod at existing ones. But what happens when we redesign a familiar experience, especially one that people have "grown up with"? What happens... Beginner User Experience (UX)
The Care and Feeding of your Online Community (with ice cream!) deviantintegral You've installed Drupal, downloaded Organic Groups, added a few content types, and have your first community site. Ready to launch! Right? It's really easy to get excited about about all of the... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Usability Testing: What You Need to Know! lebson You’ve developed a Drupal website and it seems like things make sense to you and to Drupal users but you want to make sure that it’s going to be usable to your end user. What is usability... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Reloading Rules UX with fluxkraft! fago The Rules module gives superpowers to site-builders by enabling them to define conditionally executed actions based on any occurring event. However, with its current user interface common tasks are... Intermediate User Experience (UX)
Creating a User-Centered Design Strategy for Improved Business Performance DSheffler When most people think of usability, they think of time-consuming and expensive testing and design. Realistically, however, there are several easy and inexpensive ways to incorporate user-centered... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Is it organized correctly? Card Sorting as a Tool to Assess Information Architecture. lebson This session introduces the field of information architecture for web and mobile content. It describes what information architecture is and why the organization of content needs to match user... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Validate cheap and quick: lean prototyping and user testing GarenCheckley, technicka So you’re improving or building a website or product, but how do you know you’re doing it right? In this talk, we’ll outline simple, quick and cheap ways to prototype and test. This process is... Beginner User Experience (UX)
Agile Site Development with Drupal Owen Barton Drupal sites are getting larger and more sophisticated, with aggressive deadlines and budgets. In this session we will cover a number of ways you can incorporate agile methodologies into your... Intermediate Site Building
Semantic Site Building Jody Lynn The usability of a CMS for its administrators and editors is closely tied to the semantic sense of the site build. Likewise, the maintainability (including ease of upgrade and feature addition) is... Intermediate Site Building
Laying it all out with Panels, Display Suite, Views and Context chrisshattuck Laying out content in a Drupal site is one of the most essential skills of a Drupal site builder. In this session, we're going to talk about some of critical tools for laying out content in Drupal,... Intermediate Site Building
Drupal 7 Multisite Solutions mikemiles86 Drupals multi-site capabilities are among its strongest features built into core. There are a number of ways to implement a multi-site solution in Drupal, given the platform’s flexibility and... Intermediate Site Building
Register, pay and attend: making advanced event management easy with Drupal tauno There is no one right way to manage events, but some ways are easier than others. Nearly every site that needs to implement an event registration/management solution requires a slightly (or... Advanced Site Building
Simplifying Search: Understanding Concepts, Patterns, And Techniques To Create Better Search Experiences cpliakas Search is hard. There are solutions in the Drupal community that attempt to simplify the problem of creating engaging search experiences, however it is important to understand the general concepts... Beginner Site Building
Communication for Communities with Drupal schiavone Since its beginnings Drupal has been a tool for building communities, facilitating communication, and encouraging collaboration. Buried inside Drupal core are some powerful tools, some new and some... Beginner Site Building
10 Things I Hate About You: Gross Generalizations of the Gaps Between Dev and Design Mark Newell, Marc DeLay We dress differently, talk differently, act differently, and most importantly, think differently. Designers value shine, and developers value structure. Designers dress to show off their apparently... Beginner Site Building
Rapid Drupal Development Using the Features Module mrconnerton, mpotter In this session, we will discuss using the latest 2.x version of the Features Module to build out reusable site functionality by pulling together entities, content types, fields, views, context and... Beginner Site Building
Managing Multi-lingual Content for Multi-Plaform Native Mobile Apps using Drupal jwsj11, djeannot In this session, we demonstrate how Drupal is used as an easy to use, custom frontend to manage multi lingual content published and packaged in native mobile apps (including iOS and Android)--based... Advanced Site Building
Features for Team Development and Deployment on a Single Site rainbreaw The Features module is a powerful tool that are often used by developers to turn views and content types that they frequently establish site-after-site into their own custom module, making new site... Intermediate Site Building
Building Facebook applications with Drupal dags With the rollout of App Center last summer, Facebook has made it easier than ever for its 1 billion users to discover, and for web developers to monetize, great web applications. Unlike iOS and... Beginner Site Building

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