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User experience (UX) design is still one of those fields that is viewed as essential, but mysterious. A strange combination, but everyone loves a good mystery. Looking for a single definition online, in print, or through conversations is nearly impossible, so I have adopted two different versions.
Right before the holidays, our good friends at Chicago design agency Rogue Element stopped by our office to drop off a few copies of the October 2009 issue of HOW magazine. It turns that out a print piece they had designed for us as a moving announcement/party invitation back in 2008 received a merit award in the publication's self-promotion design annual.
It's been a little over a week since Drupalcamp Chicago, which means we've had time to catch up on sleep and look back on Chicago's largest Drupal event to date. Executive summary: That was awesome, we are so doing that again!
Last week, several hundred people joined a few of us at Palantir for Playing Nicely With Others: Integrating Drupal with Third-Party Data, a webinar hosted by our friends and partners at Acquia. This hour-long presentation focused on different approaches and strategies for migrating and integrating data from third-party systems into Drupal, along with a few examples from some projects that we’ve worked on.
Many of our clients, such as colleges and universities, publications, and museums and cultural institutions, need their Web sites to work seamlessly with information from other systems, such as course listings, subscribers, and collections. We’re also often asked to migrate large amounts of content from legacy content management platforms or static HTML. One of the reasons we like working with Drupal is that its flexibility makes these kinds of migrations and integrations easy to accomplish.
You can view the full webinar at Acquia’s Web site, and copies of our slides from the presentation are posted in PDF format here.
