Jun 27
Drupal usability tests from the University of Baltimore with community solutions
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The Interaction Design and Information Architecture program at the University of Baltimore and a team of eight graduate students in the Research Methods class, taught by professor Kathryn Summers, have completed a usability study on Drupal. The Drupal community has been working with Becca Scollan in the usability group.
The usability research used video recordings and eye tracking tools to follow participants gaze in the Drupal interface. The study used eight participants, which is considered a valid sample. The study duplicated some tests done in usability testing at the University of Minnesota, and confirmed several results.
Fixing the usability problems
Core issues from both studies
- WYSIWYG in core: WYSIWYG group, Better input format support in Drupal 7
- Evaluators said that “content” was used too often in too many context and that was confusing: content, post, node , Change “story” content type to “article” or “news”, Content types descriptions tweaks
Original post by Amazon and software by Elliott Back