---
title: "Mark Boulton on Progress on Drupal 7 User Experience"
url: "/podcasts/drupal-voices/mark-boulton-on-progress-on-drupal-7-user-experience"
type: episode
date: 2009-09-24
updated: 2014-04-09
---

# Mark Boulton on Progress on Drupal 7 User Experience

#  Mark Boulton on Progress on Drupal 7 User Experience 

  

*Podcast episode player*

[Mark Boulton](https://dezignz.org/) gives a progress update on the Drupal 7 User Experience Project (aka #D7UX) and then talks about:

- Tension between Open Source Developers and Designers within Drupal
- Growing pains associated with serving a broader audience
- Challenges of iterative design
- Some of their Design Principles and [User Experience Strategy](https://forexidx.com/d7ux-experience-strategy-v2/)
- [Next steps for fully implementing the D7UX](http://drupal.org/node/578446#comment-2045766) during the code slush period
- Reflections on working on a design project where the client is an entire community
- And why he's grown more as a designer over the past year than any other professional year

For more information:

- [D7UX blog](https://forexidx.com/)
- Mark's [post on Design in Open Source](https://markboulton.co.uk/journal/comments/design-in-open-source)
- Earl Miles: [An observation about Designers versus Developers](https://www.angrydonuts.com)
- Bojhan Somers' [Reflections on a D7UX Project](http://www.bojhan.nl/reflections-on-a-d7ux-project)
- UPDATE: chx on the [communication failures through D7UX](http://www.drupal4hu.com/node/219)
- Larry Garfield's proposal for a [Human Interface Guidelines](https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/drupalcon-paris) document

[Download](https://www.lullabot.com/audio/download/608/DrupalVoices050.mp3)