I'm working with Green Media Toolshed and Bryght to build a light-functionality easy-to-use ASP version of Drupal.

One major part of the project is improving Drupal's user-interface. Drupal's standard UI is basically a big complex web of jargon and checkboxes. This actually makes sense for Drupal's core constituency of data-crazed web junkies, but of course doesn't work so well for non-tech-savvy folks.

So the plan is to use a few custom wizards, some CSS, and the new Forms API to dumb down Drupal's control panels, making them less powerful and more easy to use. Hopefully it can be implemented as a single contrib module, without requiring custom themeing or forks from core. We'll see.

So far all I have to show is this new version of the admin menu: Custom CSS plus graphics from Project Tango, inspired by Development Seed's UI work for VoteNoPowerGrab.com.

On the way are new UIs for Taxonomy, User Management, and some other stuff.