A presentation at DrupalGov 2020 by Sascha Eggenberger
DrupalGov 2020 Facelift your administrative experience Sascha Eggenberger
Introduction Sascha Eggenberger Senior UX Designer @Unic
Introduction One of the Lead Designers of the Drupal Design System, Claro & Creator of Gin
Follow me @saschaeggi on Twitter, Drupal.org
Agenda 01 02 03 04 Claro Gin Wrap-up Questions
01 Claro
Claro Admin UI & Javascript initiative
Claro Drupal Design System
Claro Accessibility-first
Claro Claro started as a contrib theme
Claro Included in core since Drupal 8.8* * As an experimental theme
Claro So how does Claro look like?
Claro Stable release of Claro was planned with Drupal 9.0
Didn’t happen https://i.giphy.com/media/d2lcHJTG5Tscg/giphy.gif
Claro So the plan was to have it stable by 9.1 * This was the updated plan
Didn’t happen either https://i.giphy.com/media/pynZagVcYxVUk/giphy.gif
Claro Stable release of Claro is now planned with Drupal 9.2* * This the current target
Claro Claro is planned to replace Seven once stable
Claro So what’s left for a stable release?
Claro Roadmap to stabilize Claro Issue #3066007
Claro How to get involved?
Claro #admin-ui #admin-ui-design drupal.org/slack
02 Gin
Not this type of Gin https://i.giphy.com/media/3osxYfo1Y0NtKdYJi0/giphy.gif
Gin The name comes from the word “Origin”
Gin Is there a relation between Gin & Claro?
Gin Started last year as a customization layer for Claro
Gin Then DrupalCon Amsterdam happened
Gin Talk: Designing the future of the Drupal Admin UI
Gin So let’s have a look at Gin
All-new layout
Clear distinction
Better editor experience
Choose your style
Refreshed media library
Contextual information
Customize the experience
Gorgeous Darkmode
Gin Login Module
More coming
Gin Over 2400+ sites are using Gin already Statistics from d.org, October 25, 2020
Gin Open Social uses Gin already as their default Admin UI
Sponsors Many thanks to all contributors & sponsors
Sponsors and all individual Github Sponsors github.com/sponsors/saschaeggi
03 Wrap-up
Wrap-up 1 Claro is on track to get a stable release in 9.2
Wrap-up 2 We have a heavy focus on accessbility
Wrap-up 3 Gin further improves the overall experience
Wrap-up 4 Gin let’s you customize your experience
Wrap-up You’ll find more in-depth talks about the Admin UI online
Wrap-up Talk A better Experience for Content Editors DrupalCon Europe 2020, Sascha Eggenberger
Wrap-up @saschaeggi Follow me on Twitter for the latest updates
The end Thank you. https://i.giphy.com/media/fSSg84nBe8WidnWOej/giphy.gif
04 Questions?
In this session we’ll have a brief look at the benefits of using either Claro or Gin as your default admin theme and which modules can help to further improve the experience for content editors.
The following resources were mentioned during the presentation or are useful additional information.
for free. You
can too.