How you can shape the future of the Drupal 9 user experience

Will Drupal 9 be easy to use for authors and site administrators? Will it be attractive, accessible, and responsive out of the box?

You can help make the answers to both of these questions ‘yes!’

The two ‘default’ user interfaces for a Drupal website out of the box are the default administrative UI/theme and the default user-facing theme. As it turns out, both are currently being re-worked. What happens with them will significantly shape the usability of Drupal 9 out of the box, both for authors and evaluators.

Drupal’s Admin UI

The administrative and authoring user interface is being re-worked via the Claro theme, as part of the Admin UI & JS Modernization strategic initiative. This initiative’s main priorities are:

  1. Create a new "design system" for Drupal's editing and administrative interface, and implement this in incrementally.

  2. Create a decoupled, single-page React application that manages Drupal administration

  3. Modernize the underlying JavaScript code and enhance Drupal's APIs to better support all types of decoupled applications.

How to Help: Admin UI/Claro

Drupal’s Default Theme

A new default theme for Drupal 9 is also being developed to replace the Bartik theme. Now is a great time to get involved in the discussion about what would make Drupal more attractive and usable out of the box.

How to Help: Drupal 9 Default Theme

Drupal 9 has a projected release date of June 3, 2020, and active development happening now. In some cases these changes will be implemented before Drupal 9. So it’s a great time to get involved.

Usability matters. Your input matters. Let’s make Drupal 9’s front end fantastic for everyone.

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