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Notes from Views Mini-Course, Part II: Creating Flexible Views with Drupal

Here are notes from the 2nd class in our Views mini-course. Mehr...

A totally beginner tutorial to Views for Drupal 7

As part 1 of our 3 part mini-course on Views, I've written up the notes for today's session. Update: here is the recording To get the most out of this mini-course, you need to know the following: Mehr...

Drupal How-To: Responsive or adaptive images

In this 3 part Drupal How to series, I'm going to show you how various options for configuring images on your site. In Part 1, we looked at how to tweak the default image options. In Part 2, we saw ways to allow inline images. Mehr...

Drupal How-To: Basics, tweak the defaults for adding images to your site

By Heather In this 3 part Drupal How to series, I'm going to show you how various options for configuring images on your site. Here, in Part 1, we'll see how to tweak the default image options. In Part 2, we'll see ways to allow WYSIWYG and inline images. In Part 3, we'll see the latest options for responsive images. Mehr...

Acquia UX and Design at BADCamp 2012

BADCamp is the Bay Area Drupal Camp, held in Berkeley, California Nov 1-6, 2012. This year, over 1600 people registered and there were 8 different summits over two days, loads of sessions in 5 tracks over two days, and then two days of sprints. It's pretty impressive that this is also the the world's largest free Drupal event! Mehr...

A tiny introduction

Hello, I’d like to introduce myself as the newest addition to the UX team at Acquia, where I've been fast at work getting my hands dirty with Drupal Gardens. Even as a beta tester, I was impressed with Acquia’s vision to make Drupal more accessible through Drupal Gardens. Like with any open source projects, if there are easy ways to start using a platform adoption can increase dramatically. Automattic figured that out with Wordpress.com, and it has been a huge success for their platform. I hope Drupal Gardens continues to help in the adoption of Drupal in much the same way. Mehr...

Evolving product: Drupal Commons

The Drupal Commons 3.x interactive demo was posted recently, and we’d love your feedback. But in the meantime, I'll go into the reasons Drupal Commons software was redesigned, our approach and some of the tough challenges we faced. In a future post, I'll get into the details of the design process. Mission statement: Drupal Commons empowers communities with easy-to-use collaboration tools so that they can answer questions, share solutions and self-organize. Mehr...

Drupal t-skirt!

by Heather It's the Drupal t-skirt! You have a pile of Drupal t-shirts, you can knit some Drupal socks (by Emma Jane Hogbin), and now you can complete your outfit with a skirt. Mehr...

UX Research at DrupalCon Denver

Attending DrupalCon? Help us improve Drupal core, Acquia.com, Acquia Cloud and Acquia Network by participating in a quick one-on-one research session. Dharmesh Mistry and I would like to meet with you individually for approximately 10 minutes. During this time, we’ll either do a short exercise online or just have a chat to hear about your experiences. Taking part in a session also a great way to decompress after lots of learning! Say hi if you see us in the hallway, or let us know when you’re free, and we’ll schedule a time. Mehr...

Choosing the right medium to present findings

Earlier this year, I was invited to be on a panel for Usability Professional Associations’ (New Hampshire). The discussion was focused on how user experience researchers report/present their findings. Do they use conventional methods such as PowerPoint or Word? Or do they use unconventional methods such as spreadsheets, video, storyboards, and/or sticky notes? Mehr...

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