Comments on: 2.0 Dashboard http://www.d7ux.org/dashboard/ making Drupal7 an amazing user experience Sun, 10 Jan 2010 11:19:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Leisa Reichelt http://www.d7ux.org/dashboard/comment-page-1/#comment-1224 Leisa Reichelt Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:12:27 +0000 http://www.d7ux.org/?p=115#comment-1224 updated to show proposed design approach updated to show proposed design approach

]]> By: jenlampton http://www.d7ux.org/dashboard/comment-page-1/#comment-1070 jenlampton Wed, 03 Jun 2009 19:08:12 +0000 http://www.d7ux.org/?p=115#comment-1070 I built a dashboard like this for D6, I'd love to get feedback from you guys as to what else you want to see on it. http://drupal.org/project/total_control I built a dashboard like this for D6, I’d love to get feedback from you guys as to what else you want to see on it.

http://drupal.org/project/total_control

]]> By: Andrew http://www.d7ux.org/dashboard/comment-page-1/#comment-1051 Andrew Tue, 02 Jun 2009 20:10:49 +0000 http://www.d7ux.org/?p=115#comment-1051 Very pleasantly surprised to see the work that's gone in so far to make the Drupal experience friendlier for non-developer users. Certainly will assist when delivering sites for clients (I believe we're in our fourth revision of a Drupal manual that we print and bind for each client). As soon as I saw dashboard I immediately thought of GoodBarry's attempt at it (see http://goodbarry.com/ ). It might have some useful ideas that can be adapted to this initiative (WordPress' dashboard was never inspiring). To weigh in on the pop up vs dedicate page debate... I think the worth of having it on a dedicated page comes from the feeling that more widgets could be contained within it. I don't really see a problem with the overlay version if the pop up shapes around the number of widgets that have been added to it and works comfortably if it's longer than the screen height (so scrolling is still possible and intuitive). Very pleasantly surprised to see the work that’s gone in so far to make the Drupal experience friendlier for non-developer users. Certainly will assist when delivering sites for clients (I believe we’re in our fourth revision of a Drupal manual that we print and bind for each client).

As soon as I saw dashboard I immediately thought of GoodBarry’s attempt at it (see http://goodbarry.com/ ). It might have some useful ideas that can be adapted to this initiative (WordPress’ dashboard was never inspiring).

To weigh in on the pop up vs dedicate page debate… I think the worth of having it on a dedicated page comes from the feeling that more widgets could be contained within it. I don’t really see a problem with the overlay version if the pop up shapes around the number of widgets that have been added to it and works comfortably if it’s longer than the screen height (so scrolling is still possible and intuitive).

]]> By: Leisa Reichelt http://www.d7ux.org/dashboard/comment-page-1/#comment-932 Leisa Reichelt Wed, 27 May 2009 13:22:46 +0000 http://www.d7ux.org/?p=115#comment-932 minor updates to description of the dashboard above and noting that development of widgets for the dashboard have been suggested as activities that you can help us with via www.d7ux.org/microprojects/ minor updates to description of the dashboard above and noting that development of widgets for the dashboard have been suggested as activities that you can help us with via http://www.d7ux.org/microprojects/

]]> By: skilip http://www.d7ux.org/dashboard/comment-page-1/#comment-909 skilip Tue, 26 May 2009 17:27:02 +0000 http://www.d7ux.org/?p=115#comment-909 If we'd create a region for the dashboard, we can add blocks. If we can add blocks, we can use views to add blocks to our dashboard. If we’d create a region for the dashboard, we can add blocks. If we can add blocks, we can use views to add blocks to our dashboard.

]]> By: Terry Sutton http://www.d7ux.org/dashboard/comment-page-1/#comment-906 Terry Sutton Tue, 26 May 2009 13:14:28 +0000 http://www.d7ux.org/?p=115#comment-906 Exceptional idea. Having a modular, widget-centric dashboard would be just what the dr. ordered. Things like: broken links, new comments, traffic, downloads, popular content, new forum topics, etc. It would be neat to be able to use Views to power some of the widgets - Views could create all kinds of different lists of things to put in a dashboard. Exceptional idea. Having a modular, widget-centric dashboard would be just what the dr. ordered.

Things like: broken links, new comments, traffic, downloads, popular content, new forum topics, etc.

It would be neat to be able to use Views to power some of the widgets – Views could create all kinds of different lists of things to put in a dashboard.

]]> By: Jeff http://www.d7ux.org/dashboard/comment-page-1/#comment-760 Jeff Thu, 14 May 2009 16:51:47 +0000 http://www.d7ux.org/?p=115#comment-760 Cool. I'll be taking a look at that! Cool. I’ll be taking a look at that!

]]> By: mcrittenden http://www.d7ux.org/dashboard/comment-page-1/#comment-737 mcrittenden Thu, 14 May 2009 12:17:55 +0000 http://www.d7ux.org/?p=115#comment-737 Jeff, There's a patch for D7 to put modal window support into core. See http://drupal.org/node/374646 Jeff,

There’s a patch for D7 to put modal window support into core. See http://drupal.org/node/374646

]]> By: Jeff http://www.d7ux.org/dashboard/comment-page-1/#comment-735 Jeff Thu, 14 May 2009 12:11:45 +0000 http://www.d7ux.org/?p=115#comment-735 This begs the question, should be we have support for modals in core? Seems a bit short sighted to implement a popup/modal for one screen, when many modules could take advantage of this if it were in core, Panels for one. Think of block or theme configs with AJAX automagically updating the display. Cool. This begs the question, should be we have support for modals in core? Seems a bit short sighted to implement a popup/modal for one screen, when many modules could take advantage of this if it were in core, Panels for one. Think of block or theme configs with AJAX automagically updating the display. Cool.

]]> By: Leisa Reichelt http://www.d7ux.org/dashboard/comment-page-1/#comment-708 Leisa Reichelt Tue, 12 May 2009 09:04:33 +0000 http://www.d7ux.org/?p=115#comment-708 the idea of the dashboard is to improve the overall user experience of Drupal for a range of end users, including the less technical among us :) It's purpose is to give an overview of the system activity and shortcut to most likely 'next actions' - this is going to vary from role to role, so a Site Administrator's dashboard will look quite different to a Content Creator's dashboard (they're interested in monitoring different things within the system and often have different sets of core tasks). I think the dashboard really comes into its own for larger editorial teams - helps the management of a larger set of content as it moves through (possibly) more complex workflows. We'll be testing what we're designing with a few large teams here in London (who have helped contribute requirements already), and I'd love if others can get it in front of more of these types of companies as soon as we have something more concrete to show. We've been talking with the Lullabot design team - so far it's been pretty high level but we're hoping to talk with them more about specific design issues we're tackling to see what their experience was as we move forwards. Do let me know if there's anything in particular you're interested in :) the idea of the dashboard is to improve the overall user experience of Drupal for a range of end users, including the less technical among us :) It’s purpose is to give an overview of the system activity and shortcut to most likely ‘next actions’ – this is going to vary from role to role, so a Site Administrator’s dashboard will look quite different to a Content Creator’s dashboard (they’re interested in monitoring different things within the system and often have different sets of core tasks).

I think the dashboard really comes into its own for larger editorial teams – helps the management of a larger set of content as it moves through (possibly) more complex workflows. We’ll be testing what we’re designing with a few large teams here in London (who have helped contribute requirements already), and I’d love if others can get it in front of more of these types of companies as soon as we have something more concrete to show.

We’ve been talking with the Lullabot design team – so far it’s been pretty high level but we’re hoping to talk with them more about specific design issues we’re tackling to see what their experience was as we move forwards.

Do let me know if there’s anything in particular you’re interested in :)

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