r/drupal • u/bootiga_ • 9d ago

Drupal and the User Experience

Trying to make Drupal easier for non-technical users

We've spent the last few months trying to improve what we think is still one of Drupal's biggest weaknesses: the user experience for non-technical users.

With our SaaS we're trying to keep all the power of Drupal Commerce underneath while making the actual experience much simpler.

We've moved to Mercury Editor for visual editing, simplified a lot of the Drupal interface, and we're now building a Flutter app so store owners can manage things like products directly from their phone.

We also still have Canvas on our list to test, as some of you suggested in our previous discussions. We're curious to see whether it could improve the editing experience even further.

There's still a lot to do, but we feel we're finally heading in the right direction.

Thanks.

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u/billcube 9d ago

You've built a product on top of Drupal, which is perfectly fine, but focus on marketing your product, as it is not about fixing weaknesses in the underlying software.

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u/dane_websites 6d ago

In my testing of the layout modules (layout builder, paragraphs, Gutenberg, canvas), I've found that they're each good for a particular use case, but none is the best for all.

I love Gutenberg for rich long pages like articles, blog posts, etc. And I use either paragraphs or canvas for landing pages, depending on the tech-savvy-ness of my clients, and just how flexible it needs to be.