Eye 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 your observation skills and breaks [...]
Lesson 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
New to me: 23 Actionable Items [...]
I’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 Experience,” “Usability Study of Digital Institutional Repositories,” and [...]
Tito 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 publishes an [...]
The 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 that in the sample [...]
New 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 a system. [...]
The 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 me: a great [...]
Christian 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:
There 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)
Michael Magoolaghan writes about working with library design as an information architect. He includes a very interesting chart that maps out patron behavior:
Six Revisions has an excellent post of links to 20 sites for mastering web design
Wayne College Library addresses quiet study in their library weblog
Edward Lee from Ohio State has an article called Warming [...]