Overview: focus on the site builders, themers and those interested in delivering a killer user experience both for Drupal itself and for their own sites.

Goals

• Attract more designers to Drupal
• Improve Drupal’s visual design

Lesson and session ideas

Graphic design: “Drupal for Designers”

These sessions covers topics that relate more towards creating the visual design of a Drupal site.

• Designing for Drupal (Structure of a Drupal site, visualizing your design in Drupal…)
• Introduction to Drupal for designers (including the most important contrib modules)
• Drupal-friendly CSS tricks (form elements, menus, etc)
• Making a Drupal site not look like one – new ways of theming common UI elements

Usability/Interaction design: “User friendly Drupal”

• Usability bling in Drupal 6
• User Experience Testing
• Interaction design with JavaScript in Drupal 6
• Building intuitive forms (layout, multistep, custom widgets, …)
• Brainstorming: An interface for media handling
• Learning jQuery

Resources

• Design and Usability track on Drupal Groups
• User Experience and Design (DrupalCon Paris)
• Design & Usability (DrupalCon DC)
• Showcases, user experience and design track (DrupalCon Szeged)
• Design and user experience track sessions (DrupalCon Boston)
• Design and user experience track descriptions (DrupalCon Boston)

Program Leads

• tbd