Talking Drupal #444 - Design to Development Workflow Optimization

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