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We’ve been busy this summer redesigning our homepage! Through focus groups, interviews, and usability testing, we gathered your feedback about what you love (and don’t love) about the old homepage and some themes emerged: “Less is more!” Our most popular links are now stashed in the navigation at the top of the page. “Search is important, […]
"5 minute video" of person using your site/app. Not clear whether you can set tasks.
Author(s): Kupersmith, John | Abstract: This document is intended to help library web developers decide how to label key resources and services in such a way that most users can understand them well enough to make productive choices. It compiles data from usability studies evaluating terminology on library websites, and suggests test methods and best practices for reducing cognitive barriers caused by terminology, and provides an extensive list of resources.
D-Lib Magazine
What is FRBR modeling, and in what contexts does that modeling actually help catalog users?
On A/B/n testing.
At the Involving People with Disabilities in User Experience Research webinar, hosted by UserTesting.com, Sarah Horton shared insights learned from including people with disabilities in her user research.
Via an entertaining compare and contrast, the presenters explore disconnects between e-books and streaming video available via library resources compared to “r…
Good on the process/workflow of extending usability into all interactions, physical AND virtual.
As the Web has evolved over the years, we have established a (fairly) standard set of icons — a _trash can_ or a _cross_ has come to represent deleting or removing something; an _envelope_ has become the indicator for a message or mail. These are little visual cues to help people along their way. Some icons have established such strong associations that they can exist on their own without supporting text, meaning, they can remove language barriers to form their own universal language. **We need to use the right icons to communicate the right things**.
Revisiting
**First slide note - Slideshare doesn't seem to allow transparent images; I promise the first slide WAS readable for the presentation." Description from the LI…
Five tips for making category names discoverable. People avoid clicking unknown items, or even worse, ignore them altogether.
I hesitate to go into too much detail about libguides because many people have heard my talk and/or read my recent paper or talked to me. But in academic conversations I find the need to hold back …
There has been a lot of talk about how the ‘flat design’ trend of more austere UI is an indication that users are more comfortable with interfaces now. When touch screens were new, user…
Harry Brignull is a London, UK-based independent user experience designer with a PhD in cognitive science. He is also the founder of Dark Patterns, which is dedicated to, in his words, "naming and...