Recently at Blink we’ve seen a significant increase in our User Experience (UX) related engagements, either as a stand-alone project or as part of a larger Drupal site re-design effort. I think part of the uptick in interest in user experience is coming from Google. Clients are finding that user experience and usability issues that used to be given a pass by the Googlebots are now being detected, and their search rankings are telling the tale.

In the first post in this series we talked about the importance of adoption and how it can often be an afterthought in the process of building world class open source solutions. We delved into the topic of identifying your audience.

The rapid pace of open source adoption in the enterprise continues. There’s more at stake for project teams within the enterprise. Projects are bigger than ever before.