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  • Young Hahn
    Nov 20, 2009
    17 comments
    Admin 2 + Rubik: Improved UI for Drupal Admins
    Alpha releases available for the reckless
    Admin 2 provides a versatile, pluggable UI for administrative tools in Drupal and is complemented by a new theme Rubik that radically reduces visual noise. Alpha releases are available for users interested in testing. This code is very new, so...
  • Young Hahn
    Sep 18, 2009
    9 comments
    Scaling the Open Atrium UI
    Refactoring a user interface for bigger, broader use cases
    We released Open Atrium Beta 1 in July knowing that a wider audience would lead to more real world testing, feedback, and problems. In the latest release this week, we've incorporated some of the responses we've gotten from the community, as well as...
  • Will White
    Jun 17, 2008
    8 comments
    Editing Multilingual Video Captions Using a CCK Field in Drupal
    Improving the Workflow and Usability of Multilingual Video Subtitles
    Last week I posted about adding multilingual subtitles to video content using JW FLV Media Player and Drupal. The workflow I described involves attaching a W3C Timed-Text XML file to a node using an upload form. It’s great for initial...
  • Young Hahn
    Apr 9, 2008
    15 comments
    Site Building with Drupal Gets Easier: Context UI
    Streamlined, Centralized Drupal Building Logic
    Last month at DrupalCon Boston I presented with Jeff Miccolis on implementing a formal context system in Drupal. We had a lot of ideas to share and some proof of concept code to demo. Since then we’ve been working hard to clean up our code and...
  • Young Hahn
    Feb 18, 2008
    3 comments
    Design and User Experience Track 2008, DrupalCon Boston
    Great Design Sessions Lined Up for DrupalCon
    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...
  • Young Hahn
    Feb 4, 2008
    2 comments
    What Design Presentations Do You Want to See at DrupalCon?
    Only One Week Left to Place Your Votes
    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...
  • Young Hahn
    Oct 29, 2007
    7 comments
    New Features and Improved Workflow in the l10n_client
    Streamlining the Translation Process for Multilingual Websites
    Recently we built a multilingual website for the International Council on Archives. Training their staff on how to use the website drove home - again - just how bulky it was to translate text in multilingual Drupal websites. So last week I worked on...
  • Ian Ward
    Oct 5, 2007
    6 comments
    Translating Strings in Drupal Just Got Easier
    It's Time to Say goodbye to the Bulky, Distraction Prone Translation UI
    This past week I was doing some translation work for the United Nations' StandAgainstPoverty.org site and realized just how bloated the process was.  I wasn't actually translating, just entering a few translations, finding missing t functions (...
  • Ian Cairns
    Mar 11, 2007
    3 comments
    Update from SXSW
    SXSW is officially two days under way, and it’s been a great time so far. After thousands of people stood in line for hours on Friday to get their badges, the real activity started yesterday. (Friday night really, but that’s a different story.) I’...
  • Ian Ward
    Nov 22, 2005
    4 comments
    Making TinyMCE Better
    We're investing some research and development into TinyMCE and are collecting all the complaints from our clients and anyone else who uses it, as well as comparing to the reported issues on Drupal. We're talking about usability issues, not failure...