your next library website in drupal 8 - drupalcamp michigan 2016
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Discovery gets everyone what they need to get to work
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Sort of like this
Get info Synthesize Get approved
Design
Develop
Other stuff
Theme Etc.
Synthesize
Synthesize
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Design
Branding
Mood
Client opinions/desires
Business needs
Vertical info
A description of the
client’s org
structure, filing
system, and reality
that can be turned
into a database
schema
Dev Other
Workflow
Copy
Strategies
Hocus-pocus?
Inputs
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Design
Branding guide
Style tiles
Wireframes?
Entity doc
View doc
Block doc
Implementation notes*
Behat tests?
Dev Other
Project plan
Content strategy
SEO and marketing plan
Hocus-pocus?
Outputs
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Make sure:1. Everyone has everything they need2. Stakeholders are all in contact
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Sites are satisfying when…
They’re consistent
They’re the right amount of simple
The powerful parts are easy
They come in ahead of schedule and/or under budget
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Your sitemap is a very small forest
Between one and three trees
Each tree has between two and seven branches off the trunk
No more than three layers of branches
But leaves are okay!
[Smash the metaphor because the branches are also leaves, and the trees can
be rearranged with an administrative UI]
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Data Structures
They’re what site builders crave Event name [title]
Splash [image, single]
Description [long text, filtered]
Date [date, recurring]
Location [address]
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Architecture to implementation
If the architecture defines Views, blocks, taxonomies, entity types, relations,
and other implementation details, that’s what will get [designed and] built.
If things are open-ended, you’ll get Panels and hacks and technical debt.
Hire a good architect
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That “wild west” time
Some good stuff is still pre-release
You’re going to make the wrong decision about something (and that’s okay!)
Plan for fixing stuff for major minor releases
Lip service for separation of concerns and “decoupling”
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Theme the small stuff first
Designthe small stuff first
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What’s the small stuff?
HTML tags
Things that have ARIA roles
The “media object” (in OOCSS terms)
Stuff included in the Style Guide module
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The designer must then usethe components when building up
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Brad, these are things to mention?
Catalog search
Word choice
Don’t recommend services you don’t actually recommend
Front page hierarchy
Ranganathan
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Conway’s law
Organizations which design systems … are constrained to produce designs
which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations
— M. Conway[3]
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Thanks!
Questions? Comments?
https://goo.gl/DjcAyM
Brad Czerniak
@ao5357 everywhere
(248) 721-0350