Columbia GovDocs Usability Study

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In Spring 2015, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the website for Columbia University Libraries’ U.S. Government Documents department (http://library.columbia.edu/locations/usgd.html). Student Team: Corina Bardoff, Mike Benowitz, Scarlett Taylor, Janelle Varin Download Full Report: Columbia University Libraries Government Documents User Testing Report Spring […]

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Ingalls Library & Museum Archives Usability Study

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In Spring 2015, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the online catalog for the Ingalls Library and Museum Archives at the Cleveland Museum of Art (http://library.clevelandart.org/). Student Team: Lisa Barrier, Erin Barsan, Greg Chaput, Alex Provo Download Full Report: Ingalls Library […]

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Archivists Round Table Usability Study

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In Spring 2015, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the website of the website of the Archivists Round Table (A.R.T.) of Metropolitan New York (http://www.nycarchivists.org/), one of the largest professional associations in North America for archivists, librarians, systems and records managers, […]

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The Grey Literature Report Usability Study

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In Spring 2015, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the website for The Grey Literature Report (http://www.greylit.org/), a web resource for public health researchers to fill in the gaps of their peer-reviewed literature research with relevant grey literature. Student Team: Allie […]

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“Is Design Metrically Opposed?”: Balancing Quantitative & Qualitative Metrics

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Last week I was fortunate enough to attend the 16th annual IA Summit in Minneapolis, MN. According to its homepage, the IA Summit is “the world’s most prestigious gathering of information architects, user experience designers, content strategists, and all those who work to create and manage information spaces.” The conference was nothing short of amazing–it

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What could be UX for “Isomorphic application” in future?

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In the last year, many significant events influenced the world of front-end web development. I felt two of them look important than the others. The first event is, without doubt, the completion of HTML5 standard. My pick for the second significant event is related to ReactJS from Facebook. In terms of isomorphic web apps, ReactJS

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DIY Web Archiving

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When it comes to online experiences, the technology for creating information experiences is often more advanced than the technology designed to document and capture them. But art collective (kind of?) Rhizome has a new tool for capturing online experiences—particularly social media interactions. The goal here is to create a contextual archive that is more like the

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UX and Usability for Reference & Public Services

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How could the methods, values, and attitudes of UX and usability research be applied in thinking about library public services—experiences which may or may not involve interacting with a digital interface? Many point out that librarians already test user experience. Assessment of library use, and even experience in particular, is an established feature of reference

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