What Design Presentations Do You Want to See at DrupalCon?

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What Design Presentations Do You Want to See at DrupalCon?

Only One Week Left to Place Your Votes

Feb 4, 2008 by Young Hahn

Everyone should go check out the latest proposals on the DrupalCon Boston site and vote on the sessions you want to see. From Bevan's "Contributing to Usability in Drupal" to the King of Denmark's "Sex Drupal & Rock n Roll," some old timers and new faces are weighing in on how to design for Drupal and how Drupal can be better tailored to designers. Let us know what other sessions you'd like to see by posting here or on the DrupalCon website - or read the goals of the Design Track and post your own session. Today is pre-selection day for the sessions, and there's only one week left for submitting sessions at all. So make sure to weigh in on your top picks.

The Design Track at DrupalCon 2008 will show off some examples of high-powered websites like Harvard's cluster of Drupal sites and TreeHouse's work on Lifetime TV. There is a lot of energy behind making Drupal easier to design for the end user. Steve's work on Garland and the color module and some ambitious ideas I've heard from Kieran at Aquia could make 2008 the year Drupal killed the designer. I've already found a solid life insurance policy.

I'll be pushing the UI and theming advantages of Drupal that are available to developers at DrupalCon. While Drupal is making design easier than ever for end users, Drupal also provides developers with a very flexible and powerful platform for producing custom web applications and tools. I’ll be talking about making Drupal easier and smarter to design for people that code. Keep an eye out for Development Seed's upcoming session proposal "Designing for Every Day Users." It will focus on UI details, how good design and good coding can go hand in hand, and what this means for people building applications with Drupal. I'll be sharing some examples and stories from two recent applications we’ve been working on.

I’m excited to meet everyone in Boston and am stoked by the energy that is in the air right now. I look forward to everyone's feedback!

How do you vote for

Feb 4, 2008 by Tao Starbow

How do you vote for sessions?

Voting on Sessions

Feb 5, 2008 by Development Seed

Hi Tao,
You can read about all of the proposed sessions here, http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/sessions, and at the bottom of each session description, you can give it 1 - 5 stars based on your interest in it. If there's a topic missing, you can also still propose a new session here, http://boston2008.drupalcon.org/node/add/session.

Hope that helps!

Bonnie

Young Hahn

UI Lead + Developer

Young is not only the lead of our design team, but he is also a lead developer who has pushed us to some of our greatest accomplishments. Young’s passion for improving Drupal tools and processes to provide better user experiences has led him to co-create and maintain modules like Features, Context, and Spaces, among many others. Young is also the co-creator of Open Atrium, our Drupal-based intranet platform.

As both an accomplished artist and long time open source developer, Young brings a unique perspective to web design that is intensely practical, functional, and beautiful. His combined background in art and web technology drives Young to create stunning user interfaces that break the mold while being extremely usable.

Young is a graduate of Williams College with degrees in studio art and philosophy. He’s been hacking Linux since middle school, has written his own form of an open license, and has designed fonts, all while actively trying to make the world smarter through advocacy projects.

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