Here in Drupal7 User Experience Project land we’ve been moving from ‘iteration zero’ to the actual production iterations. In iteration zero we’ve been doing a lot of our strategic thinking and documenting, but now it is time to start producing output that the developers who are working with us on this project can turn into something that will be contributed to the Drupal7 Project. … »

22-year old David Karp may not yet have the profile of web 2.0 celebrities such as Biz Stone or Kevin Rose, but his keynote at Auckland’s Web09 suggests that it may only be a matter of time. His high speed, high impact talk about what he has learned running mashup blog platform Tumblr – established in 2007 and currently with close to 1 million publishers on it – was well worth the price of the conference ticket. … »

Why is it that when people think of involving a community in design their minds immediately turn to surveys and polls? Enough already. Involving a community in your design process doesn’t mean making the community make the design decisions… this is why we’re dreaming up new ways of engaging a community, qualitatively, in the design process for the Drupal 7 User Experience Project. … »