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The Article 26 Backpack empowers young people to plan and structure their higher education, training and career pathways. With the Backpack, they can tell their stories of achievement, accomplishments and ambition. At its core, it provides them with a way to safely store and share with universities, scholarship agencies, and even employers their educational background, employment history, professional achievements and goals. The Backpack builds pathways of connection and inclusion for all, especially refugee and at-risk young people.

If you use the Paragraphs module and wish there was a way to more easily control the layout of referenced paragraphs on a particular node, this might be just what you were looking for. Entity Reference with Layout (ERL), a new module for Drupal 8, combines structured content (a la Paragraphs) with expressive layout control (a la Layout Discovery in core). Now you can quickly add new sections without leaving the content edit screen, choose from available layouts, add text or media to specific regions, drag them around, edit them, delete them, add more, and so on.

Drupal 7 has been a robust platform for researchers to build their own complex websites for presenting and disseminating their research. While it certainly had quirks that could initially befuddle non-technical scholars, Drupal 7's minimal technical requirements made it feasible to run on inexpensive shared hosting, and the large developer community created an abundance of modules that could be reused by projects that lacked the budgets to undertake extensive custom developments.

The Stanford Event Calendar (events.stanford.edu) is a homegrown Java web application. In this session, I will demo and discuss a current project to breath new life into a long-running web app with a front-end redesign using modern tools and UX principles. We’re moving from a front-end built in Bootstrap over 3 years ago to one based on a new Stanford pattern library, informed by user research, designed in Figma and built with Stanford’s new responsive front-end codebase called Decanter. 

The new version of the site is scheduled to go live on May 17. 

It's been seven years since the initial launch of Stanford Sites, the university's free and centrally-supported Drupal platform available to everyone at Stanford. Join us to learn more about plans for adding Drupal 8 as a service to this platform that hosts over 2,000 websites for groups and departments of all sizes as well as individual faculty, students, and staff.

How to make your RFP awesome

• Google Slides Presentation

RFP Resources

The days of only developers building the web are long gone. Many of our faculty, staff, and students are looking to claim their own corner of the web. Learn how to equip the folks outside of IT with the resources and skills necessary for them to build confidently with the same standards we set for ourselves. This session will include a detailed demo of VPTL's Stanford Domains.

Panel discussion from the Stanford User Experience Community.

Related Links

• 10 Heuristics for User Interface Design: Article by Jakob Nielsen
• How Mature is Your Organization when it Comes to UX?
• Corporate UX Maturity: Stages 1-4

The main UCSF.edu website was built more than 6 years ago now, with only one redesign between its launch and today. Our goal was to look at user-experience issues with our existing content management system (CMS) and create a new website that would be easier to maintain and manage by the public relations staff.  At the same time we upgraded to the most-recent version of Drupal, which improved our ability to maintain support for the long-term while also bringing with it a lot of challenges along the way.

http://decanter.stanford.edu/