Mark Boulton Design

Drupal7UX: we need you NOW!

We plan to make the Drupal 7 User Experience something very special. The biggest risk to this project is community rejection/involvement too late in the project.

Please, get involved now.

Audience Matrix: Our thoughts on the Drupal 7 audience

Leisa and I have spent a good deal of time looking at how we can define the audience for Drupal 7. A couple of weeks ago, we spent a day trying to come up with an effective model to use throughout the design process. Not just a model that we could use, but one that could be available to the whole Drupal community as we embark on the challenging task of looking at the user experience for Drupal 7.

Drupal.org, Design Iterations, and Designing in the open

It’s been a good while since I announced we’re working on the redesign of Drupal.org. Two months, a couple of presentations, and seven iterations of the prototype later, a glimmer is at the end of the tunnel.

On thing is for sure, in this instance, Design by Community works.

Cap D or not? Splash or not?

This is our current thinking on the direction of the branding. We’ve introduced a logo, a ‘splash’, and we’re asking the community for feedback on whether Drupal should be cap D, or not.

Why do we need a new logo anyway?

Following the latest post, it was clear that there has not been enough explanation, or discussion around why Drupal needs a new logo. 

Initial wordmark designs

Every wordmark should tell a story. Drupal’s story is a rich and varied one, that is almost impossible to sum up in six letters.

Drupal’s core brand values

What does Drupal mean to you? We’re asking the Drupal community, in one word, to sum up their experience.

What’s in a Word(mark)?

A really interesting part of our project here is developing a new wordmark for Drupal. In this post, I discuss the way I approach wordmark development from a branding and typographic perspective.

Mark Boulton Design to redesign Drupal.org

Earlier this week, Mark Boulton Design were announced as the redesign partner of the Drupal Association to redesign drupal.org. Together with the outstandingly talented Leisa Reichelt and Carolyn Wood, the team at Mark Boulton Design are thrilled to part of this project.