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DIY Usability Study: Is Your Library People-Focused?
Library Journal Movers and Shakers Sandra Sajonas and Lisa Chow teamed up to run an excellent talk table on methods you can use to study your library and make sure you are focusing on users in ways that work for them. They presented a project they did for library school focusing on the Highlawn [...]
Any questions for IA / Usability professionals?
This Saturday, I’m honored to be moderating a panel of Pratt Alumni at the Pratt Student Chapter of ASIS&T New Media Symposium. It promises to be an amazing day, featuring keynote speaker Alex Wright, information architect at the NY Times and author of Glut: Mastering Information Through The Ages!
What I’m most excited about: the fact [...]
CIL 2009: Website Redesign Pitfalls
We’re gearing up for a website redesign at Queens Library, so I headed to hear Jeff Wisniewski, Web Services Librarian at the University of Pittsburgh, speak about things to avoid and things to embrace in the overhaul process.
Wisniewski started off by noting bad reasons and good reasons to initiate redesign. Bad ones included boredom with [...]
