Applying Usability Principles to Your CMS
“In this first of two articles, I’ll offer a general introduction to the problem of CMS usability with a particular focus on contributor interfaces. Part two will look at usability in the context of specific features, including classification, workflow, search, help, and other subsystems. The articles will examine usability through the lens of Web content management systems, but the themes should generally be applicable for managing content of all kinds.”
(Thanks Daniel Szuc!)
March 18th, 2005 at 5:58 pm
Related is Jeffrey Veen: Making A Better Open Source CMS. Content management system is a strange term to use if usability isn’t a top priority, and with a few exceptions, it isn’t.
March 19th, 2005 at 12:12 am
The interesting organisational question is: How do you get people to publish in the first place? Whats their incentive? How does it map into their existing job function? Do people read it anyway? How does it map into helping their end users?