Neuroscience
I'm going to do a short presentation on usability for Simmons GSLIS (West) on March 24. I'll talk about good usability principles and show some examples from some recent testing I helped do at work. If you're part of the GSLIS community, I hope you'll attend!
Here are some basic readings to get you thinking about usability:
- My Public Schedule For Fall
In case you were wondering, there are a few places you can see me this fall, and if you can't come see me, you can read some stuff I wrote. Here are the details: Workshops "Live Usability Lab: See One, Do One & Take One Home." Thursday, September...
- Thinking About Teaching, And Other Things
I've been so busy filling up my spring dance card that I haven't been blogging. Here's what I'm up to, if you want to follow along at home. Teaching 454, Digitial Information Services & Providers for Simmons GSLIS. Still teaching Dialog....
- Lis Books
Over on facebook, some librarians are having a discussion of favorite LIS books. I can't think of a dedicated LIS book that I like, but here are two that have shaped my view of design and users: * Krug, Steve. Don't Make Me Think! : A Common Sense...
- Congratulations Leslie!
One of my former students has just published an article that may interest my readers: Leslie Porter: Library applications of business usability testing strategies Library Hi Tech, Volume 25 Issue 1 (2007): pp. 126-135. (a subscription is required for...
- Hollywood's Usability Bloopers
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for December 18 is called Usability in the Movies -- Top 10 Bloopers, and it pokes fun at computer user interfaces as depicted in the movies. Kind of funny, esp. the line from Jurassic Park in which a 12-year old says "This...
Neuroscience
Usability Talk
I'm going to do a short presentation on usability for Simmons GSLIS (West) on March 24. I'll talk about good usability principles and show some examples from some recent testing I helped do at work. If you're part of the GSLIS community, I hope you'll attend!
Here are some basic readings to get you thinking about usability:
- Cobus, Laura, Valeda Frances Dent, and Anita Ondrusek. "How Twenty-Eight Users Helped Redesign an Academic Library Web Site." Information Technology & Libraries 44.3 (2005): 232-46. Academic Search Premier.
- Krug, Steve. Don't make me think : a common sense approach to web usabiliity. Que, 2006.
- Nielsen, Jakob. Top Ten Mistakes in Web Design. Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability, 1996, updated 2007.
- ---. Usability 101. Alertbox: Current Issues in Web Usability, 2003.
- Nielsen, Jakob, and Marie Tahir. Homepage Usability : 50 Websites Deconstructed. New Riders, 2002.
- My Public Schedule For Fall
In case you were wondering, there are a few places you can see me this fall, and if you can't come see me, you can read some stuff I wrote. Here are the details: Workshops "Live Usability Lab: See One, Do One & Take One Home." Thursday, September...
- Thinking About Teaching, And Other Things
I've been so busy filling up my spring dance card that I haven't been blogging. Here's what I'm up to, if you want to follow along at home. Teaching 454, Digitial Information Services & Providers for Simmons GSLIS. Still teaching Dialog....
- Lis Books
Over on facebook, some librarians are having a discussion of favorite LIS books. I can't think of a dedicated LIS book that I like, but here are two that have shaped my view of design and users: * Krug, Steve. Don't Make Me Think! : A Common Sense...
- Congratulations Leslie!
One of my former students has just published an article that may interest my readers: Leslie Porter: Library applications of business usability testing strategies Library Hi Tech, Volume 25 Issue 1 (2007): pp. 126-135. (a subscription is required for...
- Hollywood's Usability Bloopers
Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for December 18 is called Usability in the Movies -- Top 10 Bloopers, and it pokes fun at computer user interfaces as depicted in the movies. Kind of funny, esp. the line from Jurassic Park in which a 12-year old says "This...