Current State of the Drupal Admin UI Redesign

A presentation at Drupal Mountain Camp 2019 in February 2019 in Davos, Switzerland by Sascha Eggenberger

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The current state of the Drupal Admin UI Redesign 9th March 2019

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Sascha Eggenberger Design Unicorn at Unic Drupal.org/u/saschaeggi @saschaeggi

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Cristina Chumillas Drupal Dreamer at Ymbra Drupal.org/u/ckrina @chumillas

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Archita Arora’s Session

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Zero lines of code given.

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Initiative Overview User Studies Drupal Design System New Admin UI Theme New content editor experience

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Initiative Overview

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Why all this?

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The Drupal Administration didn’t had a refresh in years

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” […] Drupal’s administration UI looks outdated and it’s preventing Drupal agency owners from selling Drupal […] dri.es/refreshing-the-drupal-administration-ui

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Admin UI and JavaScript Modernisation Initiative d.org/about/strategic-initiatives/admin-ui-js

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DRUPAL CORE JS CHANGES IN CORE JS APP UX CHANGES IN CORE USER RESEARCH UI CHANGES IN CORE DRUPAL DESIGN SYSTEM

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In the short term, we plan on updating the existing Admin UI with the new design system

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In the longer term, we are working on creating a completely new JavaScript-based administration UI

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User Studies

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Comparative Study Survey Card Sorting Wireframes testing

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Survey

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What can we improve about the content editorial experience?

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→ Modern looking UI → Simplify complex editing experience → Better Media management → More content-role configuration for editors

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Card sorting Improve Information Architecture

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Comparative Study A. Wordpress with Gutenberg B. Craft CMS

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Drupal Design System

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powerful empathetic, responsive clear, clean, concise accessible, transparent friendly, respectful

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Base

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Modular scale MAJOR SECOND - 8:9 - 1.125

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We use system fonts font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, “Segoe UI”, “Roboto”, “Oxygen-Sans”, “Ubuntu”, “Cantarell”, “Helvetica Neue”, sans-serif;

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Accessible colors

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Components

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What are design components?

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Component based Design is the practice of splitting the UI into smaller, more manageable parts with clear names

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Components are ireusablei

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Components can ievolve over time

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Iterative process

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The story of a button… https://giphy.com/gifs/hd-Dqmts7W3iiRkA

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Specifications

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Collaborative Design Tool

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Figma

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Open Design System

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https://www.figma.com/file/Oq WgzAluHtsOd5uwm1lubFeH/D esign-system?node-id=2442% 3A724&viewport=532%2C105 0%2C0.0978964

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https://thumbs.gfycat.com/FelineBareGardensnake-max-1mb.gif

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https://bit.ly/2Gk1ItH

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The new Admin UI

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Meet Claro

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A ibetteri Mobile Experience

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Accessibility is i!important;i

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Exciting, right? https://media1.giphy.com/media/l46CkATpdyLwLI7vi/giphy-downsized.gif

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But when will Claro ship?

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Test version iSpring 2019i

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Experimental theme iDrupal Core 8.8.0i* December 2019, d.org/core/roadmap

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We won’t stop there…

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A new content editor experience https://i.imgur.com/V4O01t8.gif

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Even more exciting, right? https://fansofdavid.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/tumblr_mjl02zysKA1r0k70yo1_500.gif

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Get your hands on!

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Help wanted! d.org/project/claro https://giphy.com/gifs/sad-baby-crying-8ykJ4yAnwgK2I

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Drupal Design System #admin-ui-design UX Research and User studies #admin-ui Figma Wednesdays, 8pm IST Claro React App & JS Modernization #admin-ui #javascript d.org/project/claro github.com/jsdrupal/ drupal-admin-ui Mondays, 11pm IST

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Any Questions? Questions? https://giphy.com/gifs/snl-saturday-night-live-season-42-l0Ex7QyrZeDd2GBLq

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