An open survey to Drupal users - no matter their role - can establish whether an improved shortcut/bookmarking functionality could be considered useful by a range of roles in the Drupal ecosystem.
For academic research purposes, the main objective is to gather primary data through user research that will prove that a new bookmarking module with improved features and capabilities would be considered useful in Drupal core.
Survey was available at: https://forms.cambrico.net/forms/drupal-bookmarking-survey?tca=JoDWgMmmP...
This is an excerpt from the project that will be later on published:
There was a total of 135 responses to the survey during the month of April 2024, most of them (110) are developers (either front-end or back-end development), followed by site builders (14).
A few themes were identified:
- Some people were positive about a bookmarking feature:
“I use the module on most pages for non advanced editors, and it’s very helpful to have a unified place to point to for “whatever you need to do often you will find in behind the star icon””.
“I would like the shortcuts module to stay in core as I believe is good for the first time experience”.
- Others didn't
“I actually find the shortcuts module in Drupal an annoyance, something to be clicked on accidentally when working in the admin interface.”
“For the end user, I sometimes used shortcut, but it always ended up in a mess, and it replicates buttons that are already available in the toolbar”.
- Coffee → was mentioned quite a bit.
- Some people pointed out the overlap with browser features:
“User bookmarks are managed in the browser anyway, why do we need the bookmark module in Drupal?”.
“The browser address bar (Firefox) keeps history and in my experience is the fastest way to find previously visited pages”.
“Perhaps a browser based bookmarking system to access different sites would be useful, but not within drupal itself”.
- Shortcuts per role was mentioned a lot:
“For admin tasks we use the shortcut module from core. I would love to have user and role specific shortcut sets”.
“I would welcome away to harness the bookmarking function for specific roles.
“I think role specific bookmarks is most common use case for the shortcuts module”
“For me, using the module Shortcut per role is a must in all the projects I lead in order to prepare the necessary shorcut links adapted for each role”.
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