The first annual Drupal Design Camp LA conference is this February 5-6, 2011, at the Spring Arts Tower in Downtown Los Angeles, California. This conference follows in the footsteps of the Drupal Design Camps at Stanford, in Boston and in Prague, which have successfully brought designers, themers, developers, information architects and usability engineers together.

Drupal Design Camp LA is just like other DrupalCamps and BarCamps you may have heard of, but offers sessions and presentations specifically about Drupal design and theming topics such as grid design, usability testing, sustainable, additive approaches to theming and more.

What’s Design for Drupal?

Translating a design into a Drupal “theme” is often a high barrier and it has been difficult and costly for many designers to have a “design-driven approach” to Drupal. Feedback from the design community has often focused on the difficulties of designing for the Drupal theme system, which combines several programming disciplines and languages, including HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP.

Design for Drupal is a relatively new movement in the Drupal community to help make Drupal more friendly and approachable to designers, information architects and usability engineers, and in general anyone who is interested in customizing Drupal’s output to the web page. At its core, Design for Drupal is about inviting the larger design community together to be a part of the Drupal community and enabling designers, usability engineers, developers, information architects and themers to coordinate efforts, come up with creative ideas and work towards making Drupal easier to use and look beautiful.

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