Jeff Noyes
Acquia, Inc.
Recent blog posts
Posted on Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 09:28
At the beginning of the D7UX project, the very first screencast by Mark and Leisa revealed confusion over Drupal’s installer. Overnight, patches were created to remove the confusion. This situation reveals how fantastic the community is at rising to
More... Posted on Monday, August 2, 2010 - 10:24
The primary goal of DrupalGardens is to maximize Drupal adoption. Since Drupal adoption amongst developers is taking off like a rocket ship, we’ve focused the majority of our attention on site builders and designers. To succeed at attracting
More... Posted on Friday, October 9, 2009 - 17:12
I've spent a bit of time looking at the CCK UI for D7 and it has some real pain points. For starters, all content types have custom fields, yet upon submitting the basics (title and publishing options), we send users back to the listing of content
More... Posted on Thursday, September 24, 2009 - 08:57
Smashing magazine recently published an article titled "10 useful usability findings & guidelines." There's a lot of good information here for both core committers and themers.
Of the findings, I found myself disagreeing with only one - "Most
More... Posted on Monday, September 21, 2009 - 13:09
I wanted to thank everyone who signed up for Drupal Gardens usability testing. I received a lot of requests - unfortunatly I won't be able to accept all of them.
Usability testing focuses on a subset of tasks and requires only 6-10 users to
More... Posted on Monday, September 14, 2009 - 17:15
I received a lot of requests (thank you), but only a few provided email addresses. Trying to aggregate a list and communicate with everyone proved to be a chore. If you're interested in becoming a usability tester, please sign up here:
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More... Posted on Wednesday, September 9, 2009 - 14:22
As I'm writing this entry, my colleague Barry Jaspan is over my shoulder getting frustrated while attempting to adjust his desk at our new office space. He's using a cleverly designed screwdriver designed to bend at 90 degrees and manipulate screws
More... Posted on Tuesday, March 31, 2009 - 17:04
Leisa and Mark recently blogged about crowd-sourcing usability testing. I'm really interested in this topic, in fact i spoke about it in DC. For those of you not familiar with the concept, the idea is to generate vast amounts of usage data.
More... Posted on Friday, March 27, 2009 - 10:04
For the past month or so, Mark Boulton and Leisa Reichelt have been getting up to speed on Drupal and brainstorming ideas for improvement. They're now at a point where they need help from the community. They can not succeed without our
More... Posted on Wednesday, March 4, 2009 - 15:16
This is the second half of a screencast series on Acquia Search. In the first screencast, I demonstrated how to enable the appropriate modules. In this screencast, I show you how to configure and use Acquia Search and Apache Solr.
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