Marti Hearst’s new book Search User Interfaces is available for free on the web Design with Intent has a very interesting toolkit which boils down to several design patterns in poster format The same blog also has a post modeling different types of users: pinball, shortcut, and thoughtful users Tyner Blain has some tips for [...]
Tag Archives: personas
Library Usability Links 7/8/09
08-Jul-09Library Usability Links 6/22/09
22-Jun-09Dawn Bastian Paschal is co-author of an interesting usability study on Colorado State’s digital collections in JAL 35 No. 3 Design Mind has an article on how designers can influence behavior ColoRotate has a fascinating take on the color picker A compelling account of Kristina Halvorson’s talk regarding Content Strategy Karen McGrane talks Content Strategy: [...]
Library Usability Links: 4/13/09
12-Apr-09Ron Hudson has an entertaining post about social proof including a great YouTube video Usability Counts posts a few questions to ask when interviewing a UX specialist Researchers questioned on the scope of UX – interesting results Aaron Louie has a good write-up on evolving design which touches on user personas Craig Tomlin publishes a [...]
Library Usability Links 3/16/09
16-Mar-09A discussion on persona skepticism over at IXDA Smashing Magazine has a list of 70 Ajax & Javascript techniques Jayson Online has a checklist of 10 web app usability guidelines
Library Usability Links 2/26/09
26-Feb-09A short Harvard Business Review article highlights the importance of ethnographic studies to inform strategy. Via Experientia, Christian Lindholm identifies three layers of UX in mobile phone design: Bling, Control, and Utility Andy Rutledge analyzes the CNN page design for something he labels “quiet structure”. Spoonfed Design identifies six measures of goodness in Apple’s site [...]
Library Usability Links 12/11/08
12-Dec-08I’m a fan of user personas, but building personas for applications is an interesting idea. SocialStartup.com identifies five fundamental social patterns: Public Timeline Asymetrical Follow News Feed Re-blogging Social Proof Via the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Weblog: The Electronic Library 26, no. 6 (2008): Includes “A Metadata Manager’s Role in Collaborative Projects: The Rutgers University Libraries [...]
Library Usability Links 11/20/08
20-Nov-08Tito Sierra, Jason Casden, and Kim Duckett at NCSU have a DLF presentation via slideshare that effectively collapses the work subject librarians have to do to push a large number of course pages out to the library site. An innovative method for monitoring twitter to both build personas and track the library’s brand Meredith Weiss [...]
Library Usability Links 11/16/08
16-Nov-08The University of Minnesota Walter Library hosts World Usability Day talks in conjunction with Campus IT. New to me: Interactions which is available from the ACM Digital Library A description of user personas, this one with a useful persona template [doc] EDSF report on Color Preference in Web Design [pdf] “Results from this research found [...]
Library Usability Links 11/7/08
07-Nov-08New to me: 10 Steps to User Persona Personas expert Lene Nielson has a question and answer session on personas with the Journal of HC Vistas earlier this year. She is also the author of the above 10 Steps to User Personas. “You have to distinguish between the process of creating a system and testing [...]
Library Usability Links 10/31/08
31-Oct-08The Joint Conference on Digital Libraries (JCDL) has a call out for papers for next June’s conference. Suggested topics include user studies. The webmaster library claims that flash websites kill business. Business sites, sure, but what about education sites? NASA is looking for a digital librarian to conduct usability testing, among other things. New to [...]