DrupalCon Nashville 2018: Building a Great User Experience for Content Editors
Channel: Drupal Association
Date: 12/04/2018

For new content editors, Drupal can seem like a daunting maze of forms full of confusing terminology. If you take some time to customize the admin UI, it can make a big difference for content editors.

In this session, we'll cover techniques to improve the user experience for content editors. This will include how to architect your site with content editors in mind, as well as smaller configuration decisions that effect content editor UX.

Topics will include:

Thinking like a content editor: user stories for admins
Overall page-building paradigms and how they effect content editors
Text formats and WYSIWYG configuration
Field configuration and media management
Landing page editing UI
Custom Views and Dashboards
Encouraging accessible content
Contributed modules to improve the content editing experience
This course is designed for site builders and developers who want to improve their UX knowledge and designers who want to get ideas for what's possible in terms of content editor UX in Drupal.