2019-03-22 Website UX Planning Next Steps Meeting notes

Groupings and side-navigation

• some items will be in multiple places, i.e. SCRC

  • how do we determine which side nav is displayed when an entity exists us in multiple groupings?

  • Would it be best to just put things in one grouping? - it would be easiest, but this may put unneccesary constraints

  • Do we know how many instances of duplicated entities that we have?

  • The multiple groups for SCRC and Blockson did not come from user testing, but instead from the confusion about what they are.

  • The multiple groups for borrowing laptops came from user testing and some of the confusion

• alternate: for the items that were the result of user research, we could put a direct link to that item on the homepage

• If something is in two groupings, we can list both groupings on the same page in an accordion or something

• If something is in two groupings, that are part of two sub-navigation pages, how do we handle the highlighted navigation at the top

Search results - integrating website results

• Jackie met with Emily to talk about this

• Emily requested a wireframe by end of next week prior to start of next week when the next dev sprint

• Don’t need to do user testing for the search results right now

  • Instead look at other schools

• Include a “best bet” at the top of the search results for things like specific library staff or hours searched

Individual content entity display pages

• Can we use the building or space page to represent the unique location landing pages?

• Start with People, services, groups, policies, finding aids, events, exhibits, collections

Responsive

• should this be done as part of design?

• we could use something like Sketch

• What are our options for responsive view within Rails vs. Blacklight?

  • Cynthia can talk with Chris

Design

• important component is to finalize the structure of the site

• At some point soon, it would be good to have the high-fidelity prototypes for user testing - people don’t know quite how to handle the wireframes

Upcoming tasks

1. Search results wireframe with integrated website results -

   1. @Jackie Sipes @Rachel Cox (Unlicensed)

   2. Due 3/29 to Emily

   3. https://tulibdev.atlassian.net/browse/BL-840

2. Wireframes for the individual content entity display pages

   1. Start with services, groups, policies, finding aids, events, exhibits, collections

   2. Cynthia will follow up with Building and space

   3. People/contact us pages - if there is time

   4. Due 4/12

3. Applying design and/or creating a style sheet for the site

   1. Due 5/3

   2. Discuss with Chris about the best way to do this

4. Wireframes for homepage

5. Wireframe the content for the unique locations (DSC, SCRC, HSL, Blockson, Ambler)

   1. @Cynthia Schwarz (Unlicensed)

   2. Due 4/5

6. Implement navigation and aggregation pages on the website - hand-off