Is your website beautiful?

UX design methods tend to focus entirely on usability testing, but usability is just one of many product attributes that impact the user. If we want to holistically improve the UX of a product, we should expand our methods and test additional attributes, such as look and feel. In this talk, I will present methods I employed to examine the visual appeal of academic library websites. I will share what I learned during this study, like design elements that have a powerful impact on visual appeal and the do's and dont's of altering UX study methods.  

Keep Living the Dream! How to work remotely AND foster a happy, balanced life

Virtual. Remote. Distributed. Pick your label. This style of organization is becoming more popular and in-demand among many Drupal shops. While many folks have gone remote, some people find the experience quite isolating and disconnected.

Does remote work make people happier? Does it make them more productive? The answer is not really. It is not the act of working from home that creates employee happiness; it is creating a culture that fosters remote practices to develop meaning, collaboration and happiness.

Building School of Medicine Websites with Adobe Experience Manager

The School of Medicine and Stanford HealthCare (hospital) has been utilizing the Adobe Experience Manager, a java based CMS, since 2015.  The Adobe AEM system is a bit different from other CMS platforms in that it employs separate authoring and publishing platforms in order to separate the management of different parts of the operation.  It is also a highly visual WYSIWYG authoring system with a templating system that allows for broad and flexible control administration of the design platform as well as extensibility and sharing across different template families.  The component design arch

Rich data management and publishing on websites - via zoom

Data has been growing at a rapid pace for last few decades; much of it resides on file servers. However, there is a growing need to make some of this data available over the web that may be consumed via either a web browser or via API. I will discuss managing and publishing data as first class content on websites that goes beyond displaying data as a list of files  and folders. I'll describe our new system that incorporates annotation, discussion, visualization and is extensible.

Leveraging Multiple Cloud Orchestration

Overview

We are now living in Cloud era. Therefore, we are managing AWS by developing our own AWS Portal | Cloud Orchestrator by Drupal 8.

We'll introduce our solution (Cloud project) including its requirements and the goal, the value proposition. We would like to show how Drupal 8 can define to manage multiple Cloud infrastructure and why Drupal 8 can be used as Web Application Framework.

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