November 10, 2008

Drupal Redesign; Finding a freelance Drupal job

the parade of autumn begins today

Image by Brian Hathcock via Flickr

The Drupal redesign is continuing, and an interesting concept for the “Drupal Planet” has been released.  Called Drupal Digest, this new site created by Wim Mostrey uses a digg-style of article presentation.  

Wim also made a great article recently called “Five resources to score a Drupal freelance job”.  It’s a great read, and was apparently inspired by my prior blog post “Looking for Work“.

 

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September 23, 2008

Drupal wordmark

Ought-o.  This can’t be good.  
Drupal logotype with splash
Drupal is getting a wordmark, and it looks very web 2.0.  It’s still going through it’s finial stages of development, but, I have some quick concerns about it.

  1. “This will not be a design by committee process – the Designer will have the final word”, that’s worrisome.
  2. Drupal is many things, but, it still doesn’t have the power to change the laws of physics (that’s coming in Drupal 8 ;) ).  The “droplets” shouldn’t be coming out of the u for no reason.  I mean, no one wants a logo that looks like it’s sweating.
  3. Why is the d a different color?  Please tell me you don’t plan on using that seporate from the rest of the word mark?
  4. the space between the d and l feels awkward, as does the shape of the letter p and a, it looks like they are they, watching you :)
  5. Learn from others mistakes.
I can’t wait to see the next draft!
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September 17, 2008

Gets your thoughts for the drupal.org redesign in!

Pro Drupal Development + Information Architect...Image by symbi via Flickr

There are lots of ways to be involved:

  1. Working on an Experience Strategy for Drupal.org
  2. Creating a framework to understand the Drupal.org audience
  3. Having a Mass Wireframing Frenzy (Come wireframe with me!) 
  4. Doing a big online card sort to help solve the information architecture challenge! 
  5. Wondering if D.O should be one site or several? 
I, of course, have some thoughts on all this :)
First of all, I don’t agree with the conclusions in #1.  I don’t think drupal.org, at least right now, has being a social site as it’s #1 goal.  Not to mention that groups was supposed to take over the social aspect.  Now groups vs. forums is a big mess and a nasty headache.  I personally don’t like groups, but if they want to use it, go the whole way!

Wireframe for a new intergrated bugtracker

Wireframe for a new intergrated bugtracker

#5 hits on this a bit.  I would personally love to see the whole Drupal.org experience be seamless.  I really don’t like have bits of the community here and there, and I’d love to see it all be 1 site.
#3, well, I have my own wireframes to contribute! :)  I see this redesign as a great chance to get some of my developer wish-lists into drupal.org.  See one of them at right.
In my opinion, now the best time to make Drupal.org more developer friendly, not just end-user friendly!
Don’t forget to let your voice be heard.
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