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Bringing usability talents to content management systems

30-Aug-2005

Tags: Web Content and Experience Management, Information Architecture, Open Source

In developing more usable content management systems, do certain axioms hold, or is usability completely situational? I plumbed this issue a bit in EContent Magazine last year. James Robertson has argued persuasively that the larger your CMS project, the simpler the system should be. Now along comes an effort to introduce usability experts to open-source CMS efforts and vice-versa, at OpenUsability.org. The founders say, "We aim at creating common User Interface Guidelines for Content Management Systems to provide a reasonable level of consistency to specific areas of the UI and promote good interface design." I'm somewhat skeptical about the ability of different projects to align UI efforts, but the important thing is that now we have a forum to discuss it. And having criticized open-source projects for usability shortcomings in the past, I'm heartened to see this project.

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