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Time

Time is perhaps the most important ingredient to make this happen. You will need time to devote to this project, and ideally you will have some time from collaborators as well.

How much time will this take?​

  • For context, this was a fairly solo project. However, it was my primary project for about 6 months. Not my only work, but my primary focus. I was able to spend 10 - 20 hours per week on this for about 6 months. This workload be shared if you have multiple drupal people working on the project.

  • Gathering Data. The facilities manager helped gather and orgaize the data. This included about 20 hours of time, mostly on the front end.

  • Library feedback. I also had a small group of people that provided feedback. This included our facilities manager and a person from the Teaching and Learning Division.

  • Creating Maps and directions. This work was primarily done by a student employee, with oversight from me. This was about 200 hours of student time over the summer.

  • Usability. Student employees from other departments engaged with usability testing / research while it was slow at the info desk / circ desk / tutoring desk / studio desk.

  • 6 hours of student time to test accessibility.

  • Additional time and additional collaborators were needed for Phase 2 which included integration of the maps and directions into the catalog.

Maintenance:​

As with any website, it's critical that you figure maintenance time into your ongoing workload for the future. In the case of Find a Space, this also requires ongoing collaboration and communication with the people who manage your facilities so that you are able to keep the content up to date if there are changes to the rooms your are featuring, such as the addition or removal of technology in a room.