UX Travel Guide for Developers
This is an invitation to developers to relax and enjoy a short vacation in UX Land and get familiar with a foreign culture. Why would you want to do this? Well to help make Drupal rock at UX as much as it does with your functionality!
We’ll explain some of the strange customs that UXers have and introduce you to some of their best food for thought and juicy concepts to zip on. Imagine having the ability to build modules that you know will be a pleasure to use. Just think of all the time you’ll save fixing things because you got it right the first time. Brag to your friends about how low your issue queue count is!
You may be a tad nervous about visiting this unfamiliar territory – but you’ll come back equipped with key insights about how to design for users!
Your tour guides, Michael Keara and Thomas Svenson, will show you the sites and keep you out of the dark alleys. Michael is a UX specialist who loves code and spends half his time building modules. Thomas is an experienced Site Builder with some great insights about how to make Drupal just that much easier. They know their way around UX Land and have built this bridge session to make it easier for you to come on over.
And as a special souvenir, Michael and Thomas will send you home with a handy UX checklist that you can use to figure out how to plan your modules with usability in mind. You’ll be the envy of your friends!
Comments
Sounds like a great proposal. Although unclear about the specifics we can look for, it definitely sounds adventurous. Would love to attend.
Thanks for your comment Gábor. Yes this session would be a bit of an adventure for us too. Working on the material has given us a vehicle for taking stock of the day-to-day questions, issues, strategies and tactics Thomas and I run into as we perform UX and development work. We’re looking forward to compiling and sharing that list.
I had the pleasure of meeting Thomas in Munich and am impressed with both his depth of knowledge and passion so this would be on my schedule.
Right on, especially re the UX checklist as a takeaway. Have you, in Crellistic lingo, "gotten off the island" to assess the state of other UX checklists around the world? I'll bet you could trump them.
This sounds incredibly useful for me as a developer. This would be great to get other developers to attend.
We developers are still often scared of UX, and we often aren't very good at it because of that.
Looking forward to seeing what this session can offer.
Much needed knowledge among us developers. Improving the UX of initial versions of modules would likely reduce the need to answer a lot of basic questions in the issue queue, which would be absolutely awesome.
Just want to say a big thanks to everyone for all the comments in support and general feedback for this session proposal. Its very encouraging for us as we are compiling the session material.