Problem/Motivation
The Drupal Admin UI serves as a crucial interface for website administrators, content editors, and site builders. However, over time, the complexity of Drupal and the accumulation of various features have led to multiple Usability challenges that impact user productivity, lead to frustration, and hinder the ability to fully utilize Drupal's capabilities. To provide a better user experience, we are identifying pain points and proposing several improvements.
Proposed resolution
To achieve a more streamlined and user-friendly Admin UI, we will focus on several following areas. By consolidating all these efforts into one comprehensive plan, we're giving an overview of the current main focus areas.
Administration navigation
- Status: being worked
- Ideas issue: #3364258: Improve administration navigation
- Plan: #3373292: [Plan] Administration main navigation modernization
- Issues:
- Toolbar detailed plan: Needs to be created when the designs and research are finished
- #3364215: Redesign the toolbar
- #3076820: [META] Layout redesign
- #3325034: Providing additional methods of navigating the admin interface
- #1842040: [meta] Decide on where to use modal dialogs
Field UX
- Status: actively worked on
- Ideas issue:#3343940: Field UI 2023 User Research
- #3346539: [Plan] Improve field creation experience
Layout Builder
- Status: Being planned / worked on
- Plan: #3361359: [META] Layout builder editorial improvements
Other improvements:
Dashboard
- Staus Ideas proposed, prototype and code being worked on. Needs content definition as a blocking issue
- Ideas issue: #3244581: Enhance user experience with customizable dashboards
- Plan: Not yet, needs prototype work & validation, plus useful content to put on there