The Visual CMS – A Guided Tour of an Outside-In Content Management User Interface

Speaker: Michael Keara

Drupal is regarded as a leading Content Management System. But how does Drupal’s user experience actually stack up for real life content management tasks? One metric is how quickly non-technical content providers and managers can (or can’t) learn how to do their jobs.

As a User Experience specialist and Drupal developer, Michael Keara uses the Drupal platform to build CMS interfaces that users grasp readily. The secret? Look at things from the outside-in – the way real users see their web sites. In this presentation Michael takes you on a guided tour of an outside-in CMS UI he has built for a large, multi-brand food website. Starting with the fundamental UX design principles, Michael demonstrates the methods used to manage real content and delves into a new alternative to Workbench for managing workflow – from the outside in.