Without further delay, here is the lineup for DrupalCon Boston's Design and User Experience track:
- Better Drupal Interaction Design with Flex (Chris Charlton)
- Building Capacity through Good Usability: Lessons from Instructional Design (Tim Lindgren)
- Burn the Help Manual: A Strategy for Self-Explaining UX Design (Bob Goodman)
- Converting Mock-ups to Drupal Themes (Maureen Lyons)
- Creating Custom Workflows for Drupal Applications: Taking Advantage of Core Hooks and Context (Young Hahn)
- Design on the Edge of Drupal (Claudio Luis Vera)
- Designing for Drupal (Chris Fassnacht)
- Drupal and Open Laszlo: How an Open Source Flash Solution Fits with Drupal (Kris Vanderwater)
- Drupal.org Redesign Panel (Various)
- Information Architecture to Drupal Architecture (Owen Barton)
- jQuery and Drupal: A Match Made in Heaven (Kyle Browning and Dmitri Gaskin)
- "No Tears" Methods for User Centered Design (Michael Angeles)
- Report from Formal Drupal Usability Testing at the University of Minnesota Libraries (Cody Hanson)
- Scalable Theming: Theming for 100s of Node Types, CCK fields, and Views (Bevan Rudge)
- Sex, Drupal, and Rock n Roll: A Theming Love Story (King of Denmark)
- What's in a Theme: The Power of Enterprise-Level Theming (Michael Caccavano)
The track has a strong mix of sessions aimed at hardcore designers, novice Drupal themers, and longtime community members and developers. Whether you're interested in customizing Drupal's look and feel for an enterprise-level website like Lifetime TV or looking for a robust dynamic interface solution using jQuery, Flex, or Open Laszlo, the sessions will provide plenty of opportunities for learning and sharing.
Other highlights include Michael Angeles' start-to-finish program on the right ways involve users in the design process, Bevan Rudge's guide to Scalable Theming, aka "How Not to Get Burned When Someone Adds a New Content Type", and the King of Denmark's Sex, Drupal, and Rock n Roll: A Theming Love Story, which is bound to be a blast even if no one knows what to expect.
Longtime Drupal developers and users should definitely keep their eyes on Cody Hanson's session. Cody and several other notable presenters, including Dries himself, will be going over results from the University of Minnesota's formal user testing sessions which pitted Drupal's UI against the dreaded everyday user. The results will no doubt spark some interesting--and maybe heated--discussions on how to push Drupal's usability forward to the next level.
Keep your eyes open over the next two weeks for more information on these sessions. We hope to see you in Boston!