The challenges of designing a HCD component-based... / Akhil Bhandari / User Experience & Content
The challenges of designing a HCD component-based design system and Drupal 9 theme
Akhil Bhandari
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Time: Wednesday 19th October 11:00-11:35
Room: Ballroom 1
Track: User Experience & Content
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The retirement of the Australian Government Design System (AGDS) left a void for a high quality Drupal design system that government agencies and other organisations could quickly adopt for Drupal website projects.
The lack of a high quality design system to provide a robust backbone and functional framework for building and managing Drupal websites left projects facing the problem of high development costs and long project timelines, especially when building sites based on bespoke visual designs.
A great design system would be able to solve many of these problems as well as deliver a consistent user experience for site visitors, as well as the web publishers and administrators responsible for content creation and management.
Salsa ventured forth to build the next generation design system for the Australian Government and a companion Drupal 9 theme. Naturally, it was easier said than done.
There were many challenges, most of which were not technical - that was the easy part! - but non-technical decisions that would shape the ultimate product.
In this presentation, we’ll take the audience through the development process, including:
-User testing
-The role of the Australian Design System
-Creating an accessible design system
-The component-based nature of CivicTheme
-Product-led development
-Lessons learnt so far
CivicTheme is a new, open source component-based design system and Drupal 9 theme. It provides a quick, easy and cost-efficient solution to build new websites. Web publishers and administrators can create and manage pages and layout designs without any coding.
It was developed with a strong user experience focus coupled with project-led development (government clients helped shape and test CivicTheme as it was built).
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https://drupalsouth.org/events/drupalsouth-brisbane-2022/schedule/1672
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Recorded by Tomato Elephant Studio
https://www.tomato-elephant-studio.com/record
Akhil Bhandari
===
Time: Wednesday 19th October 11:00-11:35
Room: Ballroom 1
Track: User Experience & Content
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The retirement of the Australian Government Design System (AGDS) left a void for a high quality Drupal design system that government agencies and other organisations could quickly adopt for Drupal website projects.
The lack of a high quality design system to provide a robust backbone and functional framework for building and managing Drupal websites left projects facing the problem of high development costs and long project timelines, especially when building sites based on bespoke visual designs.
A great design system would be able to solve many of these problems as well as deliver a consistent user experience for site visitors, as well as the web publishers and administrators responsible for content creation and management.
Salsa ventured forth to build the next generation design system for the Australian Government and a companion Drupal 9 theme. Naturally, it was easier said than done.
There were many challenges, most of which were not technical - that was the easy part! - but non-technical decisions that would shape the ultimate product.
In this presentation, we’ll take the audience through the development process, including:
-User testing
-The role of the Australian Design System
-Creating an accessible design system
-The component-based nature of CivicTheme
-Product-led development
-Lessons learnt so far
CivicTheme is a new, open source component-based design system and Drupal 9 theme. It provides a quick, easy and cost-efficient solution to build new websites. Web publishers and administrators can create and manage pages and layout designs without any coding.
It was developed with a strong user experience focus coupled with project-led development (government clients helped shape and test CivicTheme as it was built).
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https://drupalsouth.org/events/drupalsouth-brisbane-2022/schedule/1672
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Recorded by Tomato Elephant Studio
https://www.tomato-elephant-studio.com/record