Blogs tagged with: 'best practices'

One of the hardest challenges in web design is creating a design that effectively meets the needs of business' diversified customer base. It's the case, 90% of the time, that a business targets several audiences, all of whom want to do something different on their site.

So how do we go about prioritizing these various tasks that our customers want to perform? How does this inform the design?

Creating Personas

For those of you who weren't able to make it to Drupalcon this year - boy did you miss out. Not because of the great sessions, continuous flow of Birds of a Feather talks, or even the arcade in the sponsor hall (with pinball machine). Drupalcon has always been about networking with other people who have similar interests and aspirations - and Chicago didn't disappoint. Most of us actually spent more time talking and sharing with fellow Drupalistas than attending the sessions!

Something funny happened while at Drupalcon Copenhagen. I was approached a guy in a bar after I gave my talk on Design For Drupal: A Template Approach, who said, "Your talk was good, but you should talk about what you REALLY do." I was stunned and confused by this at first, but then slowly realized that he was right.

Coming back from an excellent time (and an excellent talk, updated slides here) out at SxSw Interactive, I've been thinking once more as always about what it really takes to get Drupal "to the next level."