Business Insider has an interesting argument indicating that Craiglist is being slowly, but surely, disrupted. Generally speaking, Craigslist has been “good enough” to not be disrupted head-on. Nevertheless, the world moves on, and the gaps in their product (due to a stubborn obstinate refusal to invest in technology) grow wider and wider. As tablets, smartphones, [...]
Tag Archives: Users
Library Usability Links 8/11/09
10-Aug-09Eye Tracking: Oneupweb has an intriguing eyetracking presentation up that discovers “areas of interest” in a few social web sites Think Eyetracking has an interesting write up of ca. 1967 “gaze plots” Virtual Hosting offers 23 lessons from eye tracking studies which could marked “citations needed” Library Usability: Usability Post has an article on improving [...]
Library Usability Links 6/9/09
09-Jun-09Lesson from American Airlines: “good design is necessarily the product of a heavily centralized structure” Bookmark: Interesting blog called Wireframes Lateral Action lines out the 9 ways users respond Smashing Magazine has some Useful Glossaries for Web Design Very funny: Dilbert on User Experience Smashing Magazine has an article on Modal Windows in Web Design [...]
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 [...]
The Three Dimensions of User Studies
20-Oct-08Christian Rohrer has a good article up earlier this month on the three dimensions of user studies: Attitudinal vs. Behavioral Qualitative vs. Quantitative Context of Website or Product Use He’s also mapped them out in this chart: Tweet
Bookmark: The Experience is the Product
18-Oct-08There are some very interesting lessons for libraries in this slideshare on user experience design: Experience Is The Product View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: adaptivepath dconstruct2007) Tweet