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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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 U.S. Government Documents department at Columbia University Libraries (http://library.columbia.edu/locations/usgd.html). Student Team: Corina
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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/).
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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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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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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
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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Kanban refers a display board for embodying and controlling repetitive workflow. It was invented in the 1950s in Toyota by Taichi Ohno to support the methodology of delivering the product to customers just in time (JIT), neither sooner nor later. Due to its many benefits, including the flexible plant system as well as the notion
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Repo? Forking? Pushing? Pull request? Merged? We’ve all heard about Github, but unless you are a programmer, you probably don’t understand exactly what it is nor how it works. In simple terms, Github is a code sharing and publishing service that allows versioning, collaboration, access control, task management, wikis, bug reporting, and feature requests. The
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Despite our collectively dim memories of the rough and tumble days of dial-up, you would be hard pressed to find someone willing to wait more than a few seconds for a website to load without a sigh at the very least, if not an aggressive eye roll. The negative impact of slow speed on usability
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