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The Drupal integrators at Connexion systematically downsize and customize the Drupal admininistration screens to the specific needs and requirements of each administrator type.

This is before downsizing:

This is after downsizing and customizing:

Noone can deny that Drupal is a powerful and easy to use Content Management System. The ever growing number of (professionally designed) sites posted on www.drupalsites.net is the proof of the pudding. However, many users would love to find more user-friendliness in the Drupal content administration screens.
The guys at Connexion Corporate Communications (they now call themselves 'Borderless Information Designers') do not only pay attention to the usability of the front-end. Content administrators are also taken great care of.
This is why the Drupal integrators at Connexion have decided from now on to systematically downsize the Drupal admininistration screens to the specific needs and requirements of each administrator type.

The marketing assistant, for example, will probably only need to create new product information pages while his manager will be the one that posts press releases online. The selectable features on the administration screens should hence be different for each of them.

One more sample...

Without downsizing and customizing, an occasional user would need to spend some time browsing through the different menus and features before finding what he/she needs to do :

For the same user role, Connexion has downsized and customized the administration screen:

As a result, the user will find his way much faster and will do his content updating job with more efficiency and pleasure.

The conclusion is easy to draw: smaller can also mean happier. Ask the Borderless Information Designers at Connexion if you too want to discover how much smaller you need to go for and how much happier you will be!