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Libraries talk a lot about usability testing (seriously, google it) Usability testing is a good tool within the process of user centered design (UCD) What is user centered design (UCD)? In broad terms, user-centered design (UCD) is a design philosophy and a process in which the needs, wants, and limitations of end users of a [...]
Designing user centered interfaces requires careful planning of user focused methods at relevant phases throughout the design process. User Experience Design (UX) is a framework within which the process promoting user centered design is carried out. This process requires the right tools to document both the process and the interfaces. I’ve listed a collection of [...]
Sorry for the long delay in posting! I asked Beth Russell, guest blogger extraordinaire, to provide us with a follow-up to her blog post, What Students Want. Here she compares screencasturing software. Very useful for those providing screencasts for our users! Recently I posted an entry about creating video tutorials for our library users, such [...]
Yesterday I held a workshop/ retreat for the User Interfaces group I chair. I wanted to move from our very operational (out of necessity) meetings, to exploration of conceptual and a little theoretical. That’s difficult to do during our weekly one hour meetings, when we are trying to fly through agenda items and never have [...]
Designing Great Experiences: The Gap Between Activities, by Jared Spool on the User Interface Engineering site sums up a lot of what I’ve been thinking about recently. It talks about good user experiences and what it takes to create them-a lot more than most are willing or able to invest. If you think about your day-to-day [...]
Here is another guest post from our Electronic Resources Librarian, Beth Russell, at the NYU Abu Dhabi campus (a start- up campus). She’s writing about something many of us have grappled with-how to determine what students want in terms of online guidance and instruction. She’d love feedback from readers like you-”How do you determine if [...]
Monday, January 24th 8:28: arrive at work with a large Oren’s, laptop, a boiled egg (for a snack, you know), a tea bag, and some tape (not sure what the tape was all about) Wrote a t0-do list (yes, in Evernote!) To do list: Begin going through to do list 8:50: phone call from colleague [...]
Attempts to organize myself have included Mac sticky notes, Remember the Milk, daytimers, smart phone note apps, and Evernote, among others. It’s quickly become clear, however, that note-taking tools do not magically transform a person into an organization queen (or king.) In fact, too many explorational forays into such tools (fun though they may be) [...]
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