Provide UI/usability feedback using Flickr
Here is a little experiment I'd like to conduct: can we use Flickr to make it easier for people to provide feedback on Drupal's UI/usability? Here is how you can participate and how it would work:
- Create a Flickr account. It's free.
- Take a screenshot of a Drupal (administration) page and tag it with the keyword
drupalui
(which stands for 'Drupal user interface'). It's important to use thedrupalui
tag as that is the tag we'll use to pick up your feedback. - Annotate the screenshot by adding notes: use the notes to explain what you would do differently, what confuses you, what can be explained better, what is missing, etc.
An overview of all the annotated screenshots tagged with drupalui
can be found here:
As you can see, I submitted one example screenshot and annotated it with two notes:
- http://flickr.com/photos/dries/233551753/ (move your mouse over the screenshot to see the notes)
So start annotating Drupal screenshots on Flickr, and we'll try our best to include your feedback in Drupal 5.0.0.
Additional comments:
- Of course, we can't capture all feedback through simple notes; we'll continue to use the other feedback channels (like the issue tracker) for more complex things. However, for a lot of people Flickr notes can be an easy way to give back to the Drupal community. It is worth giving it a try.
- Contributions are gold, talk is silver. This thread is a 'call to action' and not so much a 'call for complaints'. Now is the time to translate your complaints into concrete suggestions. We'll love you for it. :)
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