User Experience & Web Services Projects
Turfgrass Information Center
Current
January 2024 - January 2025
As Drupal 7 is approaching its end of life, the User Experience team will be closely working with the Turfgrass Information Center to redo their website. The Turfgrass Information Center houses the most comprehensive publicly-available collection of turfgrass research and educational materials in the world, and has also continuously produced the Turfgrass Information File (TGIF) database since 1983.
Spartan Digital Media Lending
Completed
Spartan Digital Media Lending is built using Avalon Media System, an open source system for managing and providing access to large collections of digital audio and video. The freely available system enables libraries and archives to easily curate, distribute and provide online access to their collections for purposes of teaching, learning and research.
MakeAtState
Current
MakeAtState is an open-source software application written using PHP to manage fabrication project submissions. The website allows users to upload files for 3D printing, laser cutting, CNC routing, etc. Staff use the application to keep track of the jobs submitted by users, download files, provide a price and delivery date estimate, and notify the users when the project is ready for pick up. Communication with the user about their project is made easy through a messaging feature.