Usability Testing and Drupal 6

"Yowza!" was the big sound bite I took away from the Usability Testing session. "I didn't expect to feel so stupid. I don't like feeling stupid" "I need a tutorial!" "I already lost the page I just created". Drupal is harder than it looks, and we in the community tend to overlook that. Things that take us 30 seconds can take 30 minutes or more for a new user.

I popped over to Twitter a few minutes ago to do a little more exploration. I was going to set up my cell phone to handle sending and recieving messages to the service. I was greeted with no CSS.

I think I'll wait to navigate the site. However, this is an interesting illustration of HOW important layout/graphics are to usability. All the functionality of Twitter sits intact, but the page has become difficult to use because we can't see where the elements lie easily.