How to enhance your editor/content input interface. How is Drupal 8 going to change the interface, and how are those improvements being implemented in Drupal 7

1. Editor Interface KISS
Optimising the experience for content creators

2. A Tasty Backend
Jennifer Tehan (Delicious Creative)
presentation at BadCampUK
http://badcampuk.net/sessions/building-a-tasty-
backend
Feature:
http://drupal.org/sandbox/jeni_dc/1555218

5. Tasty Extras
Custom Menu for Editors: Quickbar
http://drupal.org/project/quickbar

6. Enhanced Content List
Provide a Content Listing page
- Site specific columns
- Include thumbnails
- Action buttons per item
- Provides a better Workflow experience.

7. Designing and Building for the
Editor Experience
Andreas Sahle (pixelmord)
Presentation at FrontEnd United
http://frontendunited.org/2012/
slides#editorexperience

8. Seperate Content from Attributes

9. What is most Important

10. Relevant and Contextual
Wysiwyg, Placeholders, Inline Messages, Better
Fields, oh my!
Linkit module: uses autocomplete
Display character limits
HTML5 elements
Clientside Validation

11. D8UX Content Creation Page
Original discussion and designs:
http://groups.drupal.org/node/217434

16. THIS IS FINAL
This is being implemented in Drupal 8
For alternative designs, see
http://groups.drupal.org/node/217434
Seth Haven has some good ideas

17. Spark: Author Improvements for D7
Drupal Distribution named “Spark”
http://buytaert.net/announcing-spark-authoring-
improvements-for-drupal-7-and-drupal-8
Bring D8UX Content Creation advances into D7
“the Pressflow of Drupal authoring experience".
Funded by Acquia
They are looking for people to join the Spark
team:
Drupal UX Interaction Designer
Senior Front-End Engineer

18. Do Not Forget the Content

19. Do Not Forget What?

20. Streamlined Content Input
KISS: Keep It Simple Stupid
NO, NO
YES

21. Semantics Education
Help those inputting content make the best of
their content
Explain to them how HTML tags are used and
what they do:
<abbr> <quote> <sub>
<acronym> <blockquote> <sup>
<strong> <cite> <del>
<em> <ins>

22. Solutions
Markdown?
Some Agencies will teach their clients markdown
to accelerate/clean content input
Inline Editing?
Aloha Editor
Drupal Core wysiwyg?
Drupal 8 will have a RTE/Wysiwyg in core