Design Next Steps - 9/14/2018

Owned by Cynthia Schwarz (Unlicensed)
Last updated: Sept 17, 2018

Priority - Micro-site homepages

Next Step - meet with each micro-site department head/director - more info available on Meeting with Branch Library Directors

Priority - Library Search Overlay

If we are going to make search a priority for the website by having a search box and little other content, then the design of the search results pages need to be a priority.

  1. Emily and Rachel C. have already worked on some visual changes to Library Search, but they haven't been implemented because of time constraints. Now is a good time to go back and look at those.
  2. I'd like Rachel to take the mock-up that she did for Emily and combine it with the design mock-up for the website homepage. MAN-33 - Getting issue details... STATUS
  3. TODO - add Jira for indexing website content in Solr for display in search results
  4. TODO - add Jira for metadata harvesting in schema.org for search optimization - embed metadata in JSON

Priority - Entity Display Templates

The majority of the information in the website will be displayed as an entity template, hence the focus on their design and layout.

  1. Gabe is going to research other libraries that use a linked data style structure for their website and bring examples to the core team.
  2. Core design team will take a first pass at the layout of each entity type to create an initial design.
  3. I will then work with the content contributors and site editors who have a stake in individual entity types and review the initial design with them.