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Mark Boulton

February 4th, 2009

Drupal 7 Redesign

DrupalLast week, I flew to Boston, MA, to have a meet­ing with those fine folks at Acquia about a pro­ject they wanted my small design stu­dio to look at. Today, Dries Buytaert, the founder of Drupal, announced that, together with Leisa Reichelt, we’re going to be work­ing on improv­ing the user exper­i­ence of Drupal 7. Need­less to say, we’re very, very excited to be part of this project.

From what we learned on the Drupal.org pro­ject, both in terms of pro­cess, but also some of the stum­bling blocks that Drupal has, we’re con­fid­ent we can make some changes that will make it easier to use for people who are new to Drupal, but also exper­i­enced users. 

Leisa and I are going to be at Drupal­Con DC in March. We’ll be kick-starting our research, present­ing on the redesign of drupal.org, and doing a lot of listen­ing. if you’re going please tap me on the shoulder and say hi.

13 Responses to “Drupal 7 Redesign”

  1. Kyle Mathews said on: February 4th, 2009 at 6:22 pm

    Really excited about this Mark! I loved what you did with drupal.org redesign and am con­fid­ent that you and Leisa can work sim­ilar magic for Drupal 7.

  2. jinesh mehta said on: February 4th, 2009 at 8:51 pm

    grids, typo­graphy and now Drupal 7! can’t wait to see what MBD cooks up :)

  3. Chris Wallace said on: February 4th, 2009 at 11:48 pm

    Sounds like you’ve got a lot going on. Let me know if you need any help.

  4. lxcid said on: February 5th, 2009 at 2:57 am

    Wow, that’s a big respons­ib­il­ity but i’m sure its in good hands. :D I’m look­ing for­ward it. :D

  5. Amrit said on: February 5th, 2009 at 6:19 pm

    I would like see what Drupal would have to offer over the other CMS.

  6. Lauren said on: February 6th, 2009 at 4:00 pm

    I am a huge fan. I love Drupal and it is hard to ima­gine how it can get any more power­ful. Really com­pared to WP, Simple CMS and the dreaded Joomla (still a great cms just gave me a hard time) Drupal is the way to go. I am very excited to see what’s new and where the changes will occur (just don’t pull a vista on us) :)

  7. olimagination said on: February 8th, 2009 at 5:44 pm

    Simply Awsome!

    but what about the brand­ing, The blue Head? 

    second detail is about the “Get Started”:

    4 steps?

    3 steps should be there

    and get sup­port should be men­tionned

    but not as 4th step.

    - Drupal should remain simple and easy

    - if in need of sup­port then it has to be con­sidered like the little unmis­tak­able tip above all. the little cherry on the cake to get the full service. 

    con­grat­u­la­tion look­ing for­ward to became a new user of Drupal 7, if it gets all UI UX designs and so from these actual great improve­ments.

    I haven’t been through all but would like to.

  8. sanatate said on: February 9th, 2009 at 4:22 am

    I can’t wait to see the design :) I love Drupal.

  9. Guy Roberts said on: February 9th, 2009 at 2:53 pm

    Really pleased to read that you are involved in a Drupal rethink. 

    The plumb­ing behind Drupal does what it says on the tin and is very pro­duct­ive for me. 

    But the design of drupal.org and of the tem­plates avail­able for Drupal give a poor first and second impression. 

    You are just the man for the job, but it will be like nudging a super tanker onto a new head­ing.  I really really hope this goes well.

  10. jam said on: February 10th, 2009 at 8:48 am

    /shoulder tap

    echo “Hi!” 

    … look­ing for­ward to meet­ing you in DC, Mark! 

    - jam.

  11. host said on: February 19th, 2009 at 8:00 am

    you and Drupal are both a Class apart.

    Truly you have some ser­i­ous skill in what you’v done,thats real Class there :)

  12. Mexabet said on: February 21st, 2009 at 6:35 pm

    I’m using Drupal for our com­munity web­site and I feel happy that this new design will be more user-friendly for the inex­per­i­enced and the exper­i­enced users alike. It is really an hon­our for you to be involved in this project.

  13. kat said on: February 22nd, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    Con­grats, sounds excit­ing. I’ve always been an admirer of your work, con­cepts and clean min­im­al­ist approach to func­tional design.

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