Talking Drupal #444 - Design to Development Workflow Optimization

Apr 1, 2024

Design and development handoff optimization discussed with expert Crispin Bailey. Topics include challenges, collaboration tools like Figma, and framework recommendations. Also, exploration of Office Hours module in Drupal for managing business operation hours efficiently.

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Introduction

00:00 • 2min

Exploring the Office Hours Module in Drupal

01:49 • 7min

Collaborative Design Process with Figma Integration

08:42 • 16min

Effective Collaboration Tools and Communication Methods

24:44 • 10min

The Evolution of Tools and Challenges of Upgrading

35:06 • 11min

Navigating Design and Development Collaborations

46:12 • 25min

Balancing Design Needs and AI Integration in Development

01:11:11 • 6min

Guest Contact Information and Show Conclusion

01:16:50 • 3min

Today we are talking about design to development hand off, common complications, and ways to optimize your process with guest Crispin Bailey. We’ll also cover Office Hours as our module of the week.

For show notes visit: www.talkingDrupal.com/444

Topics

Primary activities of the team
Where does handoff start
Handoff artifact
Tools for collaboration
Figma
Evaluating new tools
Challenges of developers and designers working together
How can we optimize handoff
What steps can the dev team take to facilitate smooth handoff
Framework recommendation
Final quality
AI

Guests

Crispin Bailey - kalamuna.com crispinbailey

Hosts

Nic Laflin - nLighteneddevelopment.com nicxvan John Picozzi - epam.com johnpicozzi Anna Mykhailova - kalamuna.com amykhailova

MOTW Correspondent

Martin Anderson-Clutz - mandclu

Brief description:
- Have you ever wanted to manage and display the hours of operation for a business on your Drupal site? There’s a module for that
Module name/project name:
- Office Hours
Brief history
- How old: created in Jan 2008 by Ozeuss, though recent releases are by John Voskuilen of the Netherlands
- Versions available: 7.x-1.11 and 8.x-1.17
Maintainership
- Actively maintained, latest release was 3 weeks ago
- Security coverage
- Test coverage
- Documentation: no user guide, but a pretty extensive README
- Number of open issues: 15 open issues, only 1 of which are bugs against the current branch, though it’s postponed for more info
Usage stats:
- Almost 20,000 sites
Module features and usage
- Previously covered in episode 113, more than 8 years ago, in the “Drupal 6 end of life” episode
- The module provides a specialized widget to set the hours for each weekday, with the option to have more than one time slot per day
- You can define exceptions, for example on stat holidays
- You can also define seasons, with a start and end date, during which the hours are different
- The module also offers a variety of options for formatting the output:
- You can show days as ranges, for example Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm, 12-hour or 24-hour clocks, and so on
- Obviously it will show any exceptions or upcoming seasonal hours too
- It can also show an “open now” or “closed now” indicator
- It can create schema.org-compliant markup for openingHours, and has integration with the Schema.org Metatag module
- Office Hours does all this with a new field type, so you could add it to Stores in a Drupal Commerce site, a Locations content type in a site for a bricks-and-mortar chain, or if you just need a single set of hours for the site, you should be able to use it with something like the Config Pages module
- The README file also includes some suggestions on how to use Office Hours with Views, which can give you a lot of flexibility on where and how to show the information