Front-end, User Experience and Design

Are you currently using, or considering Drupal? Whether you are looking to develop an organization's initial website or upgrade an existing one, managing a website development project can be a daunting task, especially if your organization lacks internal website design and development expertise. Drupal provides an extremely flexible platform, but determining an appropriate approach to best fit your organization's needs and budget often involves navigating the benefits and costs of different providers, approaches, and technologies.

“If you want a great site, you’ve got to test.” - Steve Krug, Usability Expert

Anyone who works on a product should be connected to the customers that use it. Everyone. This only makes sense - how can you sell, build, improve or manage something if you don't know what people think about it? Ignoring this data is a good way to create products people don't need, or can't use, or that miss deadlines and devastate budgets.

Web analytics can provide Drupal end users and admins with a wealth of insight and data into the performance of your site and its content. Most sites have Google Analytics set up but configured only to collect the bare minimum. In this session, we will discuss what you can get out of analytics, how to implement it on your Drupal site, and also how to extend it with contrib modules and a little bit of coding so that you can start tracking the performance of everything from carousels, promotional calls to action, navigation interactions, and PDF clicks.

The process of website redesign is more than just giving your website a fresh coat of paint. It involves overhauling the website’s design to make it more contemporary, usable and engaging than before; this overhaul is not just visual but technical as well. With redesign costs between $80,000 and $500,000, how can you increase the longevity of that initial website redesign investment?

Learn our 20 tips on how not to destroy you website redesign project.  

The journal Science is undergoing a digital transition. As a previously print-focused publication, its web sites were historically implemented by contractors and vendors, without consistent design stewardship. This session describes how we created a maintainable design system that directly powers multiple sites, using Pattern Lab and Gulp.

Drupal 8 provides us as developers and desginers with a unique opportunity to change the landscape of content on the web.  We have the ability to manage the configuration from the user interface to the actual template and variables that output the HTML, CSS and JavaScript.  These building blocks of Drupal 8 have changed from its predecessor so we will take a look at dissecting a theme by exploring the following: