joeshub / hours-of-operation

Explorations on showing and editing Hours of Operation for businesses

Hours of Operation project

Development

npm install
npm start

Tech stack

• React
  • Context
  • Provider
  • Hooks
    • useReducer
    • useContext
    • useState
• grommet - component library
  • DateInput
  • Select
  • CheckBox
  • Box
  • Icons
• date-fns - date utility
• uuid - unique id utility
• classnames - className utility

Design

Edit

• Modal for editing regular hours
• Modal for editing special hours

Views

• v1 - show special hours in a separate table
• v2 - show special hours in the same table

UX Explorations

• Option 1 - Special hours are listed at the bottom for user to check at their own discretion.
• Option 2 - User only views Special Hours on the week’s they occur.
• Option 3 - User is alerted when the hours may differ this week.

User testing

• Tested for on mobile and desktop
• Tested for accessibility using keyboard and mouse
• Tested for color accessibility

Data models

const regularHours = [
    {
        id: 0,
        name: 'Sunday',
        isOpen: true,
        open24Hrs: false,
        times: [
            {
                opensTime: 'time',
                closeTime: 'time',
            }
        ]
    }
]

const specialHours = [
    {
        id: 0,
        date: new Date(),
        isOpen: true,
        open24Hrs: false,
        times: [
            {
                opensTime: 'time',
                closeTime: 'time',
            }
        ]
    },
]

MVP

• Base app
• Create a store
• Add reducers
• Edit hours
• Show hours
• Populate default hours
• Add ability to add special hours
• Show special hours separate from regular hours
• Show special hours blended with regular hours
• Mobile layout

V2

• Add date sensitive taglines e.g. closed today, closing soon, opening soon
• Add calendar view
• Add a name field to Special hours
• Add ability to search in the time select box
• Allow adding multiple times per day or date
• Add prop-types validation
• Models in TypeScript
• Write unit tests
• Write component and snapshot tests
• Write E2E tests

Author

Joe Seifi