Designing with Purpose: How to Integrate Your Features into Drupal Canvas
Video Description
Renee Lund (reneelund)
Learn how Drupal Canvas was designed to grow with you — and how you can extend it without compromising usability, consistency, or performance.
Prerequisite
Participants should have a basic understanding of Drupal, especially how modules, extensions, and contributed features are added to a site.
Familiarity with UI/UX principles like usability, consistency, and scalability is helpful but not required.
Experience with site building, module development, or platform customization will make it even easier to apply the session’s insights.
Outline
In this session, I’ll walk you through how we approached designing Drupal Canvas with one key principle at the forefront: building a scalable foundation to enable easy, seamless future extensions. As a product designer on the project, I’ll share how we prioritized flexibility, consistency, and usability to future-proof the platform, making it easier for new features to be integrated without disrupting the user experience. We'll dive into best practices for integrating contributed modules and extensions into Drupal Canvas UI, real-world examples of successful integrations, and practical strategies for ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability. Whether you're designing, building, or extending Drupal experiences, you’ll leave with actionable insights for creating products that are ready for growth and change.
Learning Objectives
Understand the importance of designing for scalability and flexibility in digital platforms.
Learn practical strategies for integrating new features and extensions while maintaining a consistent, intuitive user experience.
Gain real-world insights from the design of Drupal Canvas and how it supports growth through seamless extensibility.
Discover common challenges and solutions when evolving a platform with contributed modules and custom features.
Walk away with design principles you can apply to future-proof your own projects for long-term success.
Experience level
Advanced
Learn how Drupal Canvas was designed to grow with you — and how you can extend it without compromising usability, consistency, or performance.
Prerequisite
Participants should have a basic understanding of Drupal, especially how modules, extensions, and contributed features are added to a site.
Familiarity with UI/UX principles like usability, consistency, and scalability is helpful but not required.
Experience with site building, module development, or platform customization will make it even easier to apply the session’s insights.
Outline
In this session, I’ll walk you through how we approached designing Drupal Canvas with one key principle at the forefront: building a scalable foundation to enable easy, seamless future extensions. As a product designer on the project, I’ll share how we prioritized flexibility, consistency, and usability to future-proof the platform, making it easier for new features to be integrated without disrupting the user experience. We'll dive into best practices for integrating contributed modules and extensions into Drupal Canvas UI, real-world examples of successful integrations, and practical strategies for ensuring long-term scalability and maintainability. Whether you're designing, building, or extending Drupal experiences, you’ll leave with actionable insights for creating products that are ready for growth and change.
Learning Objectives
Understand the importance of designing for scalability and flexibility in digital platforms.
Learn practical strategies for integrating new features and extensions while maintaining a consistent, intuitive user experience.
Gain real-world insights from the design of Drupal Canvas and how it supports growth through seamless extensibility.
Discover common challenges and solutions when evolving a platform with contributed modules and custom features.
Walk away with design principles you can apply to future-proof your own projects for long-term success.
Experience level
Advanced