Improving editors’ lives with Neos

Sreyleak Thux, Sebastian Helzle

Who is Leak?

• Project manager at Web Essentials

• 1,5 year with Neos projects as Product Owner

• Loves good food & movies

Who is Sebastian?• Developed websites since

Geocities was cool ~1996

• Working with TYPO3 since 2005

• Freelance consultant since 2007

• Fell in love with Neos in 2013

• Certified Scrum Master since 2015

• Love hiking, mountains and cooking

What we will talk about

• We want success for our clients

• Include the editors into your concepts

• Importance of backend usability

• How integrators can help

• How Neos helps

How this topic became important to us

• Contact with clients & editors

• Content editing by ourselves

• Doing lots of integrators work

We want success for our clients

• Give them the ability to

• create content easily

• publish often

• work efficiently

• reach their target groups

How can we help them?

Editors have to be a piece of your concept

Goals of conceptual phase

• Help clients understand the importance of good editing workflows

• Collaboration between integrators and editors

• Include optimising editing workflows into budget

• Find simple workflows

„The editing experience also needs to be validated in the ongoing project reviews.“

Why should a client invest into this?

Time wasters• Many clicks needed to do simple workflows

• Backend needs long to load

• Unhelpful error & validation messages

• Actions are hard to find

• Changes get lost

• Using the wrong tool for the job

• Complicated documentation

• Motivation issues

„Simple workflows are a necessity for regular output“

Good usability doesn’t need lots of documentation

How integrators can help

Be part of the community

Learn from others

Provide videos

• Connection integrators <-> editors

• Show how features actually work

• Easy to understand

• Can be done much faster than complex documentation (even localised)

• Helpful for reviewing workflows

How Helps

–neos.io

„Think of Neos as an open source Content Application Platform based on its own PHP

framework Flow. A set of core Content Management features is resting within a larger

context that allows you to build a perfectly customized experience for your users.“

„Neos doesn't solve content editing issues, it gives integrators tools to provide great

experiences.“

Some good practises

The backend is the frontend

Inline editing

Name things as they are usedYou can even rename standard components

Context based visibility

Provide guidelines in the backendMake it clear that this is not visible in the frontend

Helpful hintsfor complex input

Easy to configure and maintain

We came far with content editingStill a lot to do

Thank you!

Interested?

• Read more about this topic on http://www.mind-the-seb.de

• Everything Neos on neos.io

Questions?