Today WordPress powers one of every 6 websites on the Internet, nearly 60 million in all, with 100,000 more popping up each day.
But have you ever taken time to think about how it manages content from a design and a Client perspective?
Let’s think about the WordPress Admin – is it focused on its users; is it easy to use; is it breathtaking? I think we’ll all agree that it could use some work in these areas.
Some of these issues are related to the Client experience, and some are related to our design process. All these problems are related in one way or another to user experience. Before we dive into the problems of WordPress, please understand that I’m not suggesting that we need to throw WordPress away and develop a radically different CMS. Nor am I necessarily suggesting that these problems should be fixed and embedded into the next core version of WordPress.
What I am suggesting is that we as developers, designers, programmers, (really) “Solutions Managers” need to look at these problems and develop a creative solution for them. So read on, and put your creative hat on – you’ll need it!
But have you ever taken time to think about how it manages content from a design and a Client perspective?
Let’s think about the WordPress Admin – is it focused on its users; is it easy to use; is it breathtaking? I think we’ll all agree that it could use some work in these areas.
Some of these issues are related to the Client experience, and some are related to our design process. All these problems are related in one way or another to user experience. Before we dive into the problems of WordPress, please understand that I’m not suggesting that we need to throw WordPress away and develop a radically different CMS. Nor am I necessarily suggesting that these problems should be fixed and embedded into the next core version of WordPress.
What I am suggesting is that we as developers, designers, programmers, (really) “Solutions Managers” need to look at these problems and develop a creative solution for them. So read on, and put your creative hat on – you’ll need it!