5. ron severdia
• Member of the Joomla
Leadership Team
• Author of Using Joomla ™
from O’Reilly Media
• Creative Director at
Kontent Design in S.F.
• Doing design & UX
mainly in corporate
sector for over 15 years
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7. user experience
the creation of the architecture and
interaction models that affect user
experience of a device or system
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8. usability
the ease with which people can
employ a particular tool object in
order to achieve a particular goal
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9. UX building blocks
• User-centered visual
design
• Interaction design
• Information architecture
• Navigational design
• User needs derived from
research
• Site objectives from
business
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11. the joomla UX
the creation of the architecture and interaction
models that affect user the experience of Joomla
administrators, site creators and content creators
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15. what is a bad UX?
• Poor usability, inconsistent UI
• Cryptic error messages
• Confusing instructions
• Poor organization of content
• Poor visual hierarchy
• Fail to meet the user’s needs
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18. what is a good UX?
• Consistent interface paradigm and
navigational design
• Site objectives meet user needs
• Interaction design facilitates user tasks
• Sexy and functional visual design
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27. Joomla 1.6 Beta
Navigation Status
Signpost Actions
Secondary/ Content
Tertiary Filters
Navigation
Text Content
Actions
Content
Content
Navigation
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28. Joomla 1.0 - 1.6
Not a drastic departure in five years
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33. major media
give site managers an intuitive way to share,
embed, manipulate all types of digital media
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34. site services
seamlessly integrate YouTube & Remixer,
Flickr, Picnik, JayCut, PhotoBucket, Kaltura,
MotionBox, Dropbox and many more
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39. get personal
different strokes for different folks
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40. group templates
Create a custom UI for each user type
(content creator vs. publisher)—
not just turning features on and off.
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41. sample content
vertical-specific sample content and templates—
corporate users will see a visual design and
content helpful to their evaluation process,
and so will “mom and pop” shops
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47. fight the “simple”
wrong school of thought
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48. bad school dropout
• Tuck away everything
and hide buttons until
they are needed
• Stripping away an
interface to minimum
• Choose simple UI
elements over usable
ones
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50. fight the simple
• It’s NOT about tucking
away everything and
hiding buttons until they
are needed.
• It’s NOT about stripping
away an interface
• It IS about structuring
the UI in a way that’s
intuitive and the logical
grouping of actions
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