Presentations We've Given

Not everyone that wants to contribute to Drupal knows how to code, and not everyone that knows how to code wants to be a project manager for their own module. See where I'm going here?

In this session you'll learn the tools you need to jump into any module's issue queue (aka Drupals custom bug reporting and project management tool) and help organize the chaos.

Configuring WYSIWYG editors in Drupal is now more complicated than ever. First you need to choose which editor you like. Then you need to install and configure a handful of additional modules to make your chosen editor work in Drupal. All that is followed by a period or pulling your hair out, banging your head against your keyboard, and frantically googling for instructions on how to get everything to work nicely together. When you’re finally done and get something working, you probably don’t even realize that you’ve exposed yourself to a potential security vulnerability. I’d like to share with you a best-practice approach for setting up a secure, usable WYSIWYG editor in Drupal 7. I'll also demonstrate several secure techniques for embedding images inline using image styles and captions.

This February we led a Drupal 7 usability study at Google and livestreamed it to over 115 developers. Usability studies provide a firsthand look at how users experience a product and are incredibly effective at highlighting interface flaws and confusions. However, the impact these studies have are limited by their audience; it is only those present during the study who really feel engaged with it. After the analysis and recorded videos have been released, the thrill of the discussion and collaborative brainstorming has already died down. When you open up usability studies to the world, you have the power to stir an army of people into action. Everyone watches the same users getting frustrated, everyone feels the same pain at interface quirks, and everyone participates in the discussion, and ultimately the solution. We believe that live usability studies are the best way to advocate for a focus on user experience in Drupal development. In this talk, we will explain how we ran this study, key insights we gained from it, and how to do it again.

By the end of the session, you'll be able to create your own themes, sub-themes and rock Drupal's world like you never have before - all while fulfilling the mantra of a themer: "Make it pretty." Now updated with a screenshare from the session!

I’d like to share with you a best-practice approach for setting up a secure, usable WYSIWYG editor in Drupal 7. I'll even demonstrate several techniques for embedding images inline. The modules I’ll be demonstrating include: WYSIWYG API, WYSIWYG filter, Caption Filter, Better Formats, Insert, Image Resize Filter, FileField Sources (and if there’s time, IMCE)

Performance problems in Drupal are like cancer. Its best to prevent them by following best practices and regular testing. In this session we’ll simulate a nightmare: A poorly optimized site that’s being brought down by traffic spikes.

Co-presented by Andrew Berry, Lullabot.

The trend towards a "mobile first" use of the web is showing no signs of slowing down. It's no longer enough to have websites that are functional on mobile. They must work well and feel natural on mobile devices to attract and keep visitors.

How can site builders and developers improve the user experience on mobile of sites they build in Drupal 7? This session will cover seven (or even more!) steps to help ensure a consistent and friendly mobile experience for visitors of your Drupal 7 sites.

Over the past two years, the state of web typography has drastically changed, especially so in Drupal. The legal, technical, and usability roadblocks preventing most of us from using web fonts before are largely gone. We can now select and apply a huge variety of typefaces with just a few clicks in Drupal and do amazing things with text that were never possible with traditional font replacement techniques.

We'll cover what changed to make web fonts work, demonstrate what can be done with web typography in Drupal today, and recommend approaches to new challenges such as selecting the right font and dealing with cross-browser font rendering.

Three years after our first round of formal usability testing on Drupal 6, the UX team returned to the University of Minnesota in May 2011 to uncover usability issues and patterns for Drupal 7. After making broad changes in D7, it was critical for us to validate if we are inching forward in our goal. With this aim in mind, we tested eight participants and asked them to perform some tasks. All the participants were site builders with no experience with Drupal.