Designing for Communities

<!--HTML--><p align="justify"> In 2008, Mark Boulton&#39;s small <a href="http://www.markboultondesign.com/" target="_blank">design firm</a> won the project to redesign&nbsp;<a href="http://drupal.org" target="_blank">drupal.org </a>home to the Drupal open source content management project and its community of over 400,000 users and developers. Designing for open source communities has its challenges: it is a developer-centric environment where discussion, debate and consensus rules and where design processes are often viewed sceptically. To help dispel some misconceptions behind the design process, Mark&#39;s team worked completely openly with the Drupal community - and broader the web design community&nbsp;- throughout the project.</p> <p align="justify"> This talk will walk through some of the challenges and solutions for designing for large communities. Mark will share the successes - and the horror stories -&nbsp;of how a traditional design process was challenged every step of the way and how the Drupal community became an integral part of that new process.</p> <p align="justify"> Mark and his team will be working with the Communication Group on an open project to redesign a new core website for the CERN community.</p>