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User Research and Persona Creation Part 3: Introducing the Personas
In this final part of the persona creation series I will introduce the personas we created and discuss how we plan to keep the personas relevant and current. As mentioned in the previous blog, we...
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Recruitment evaluation and screening for personas
Now that the usability testing has been concluded, it seemed an appropriate time to evaluate our recruitment process and reflect on what we learned. Hopefully this will provide useful pointers to...
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UX2.0 Project Roadmap
Last week during our regular project meetings we decided on a roadmap for the user research aspect for the last few months of the project (is it that time already?!). In the spirit of transparency I...
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UX2.0 Usability Test Report
Last month a usability study was carried out on the UX2 digital library prototype. The study involved 10 student participants who tried to complete a variety of tasks using the prototype. The report is...
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Academic Mobile Library Services
In order to get a picture of the mobile library landscape, the mobile offering from a variety of academic institutions has been investigated. The aim of this is to understand what institutional...
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Mobile library survey report
In November we ran a survey to all students at the university to investigate mobile demographics among students, Internet habits and attitudes towards mobile library services. The survey ran for two...
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UX2 Mobile Usability Testing
Introduction Following on from the usability testing of the desktop prototype digital library, we conducted more user research on the mobile prototype. The prototype is similar to the full version but...
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Event: User Centred Design Day with Balsamiq Prototyping for Beginners
As the UX2 project wraps up this month, we have planned an event which we hope will introduce user-centred design and usability in digital libraries to others through our case studies. The event is...
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Slides: User Centred Design Day, 17th May
Many thanks to everyone who made it along to our event yesterday. I hope that it was informative and provided some guidance on planning your own user research. I’ve uploaded my slides from the morning...
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Library Hi Tech article: Student attitudes towards mobile library services...
I’m very pleased to announce that the article written for Library Hi Tech based on research conducted earlier this year is now available. For more information and to read the article in full follow the...
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