Usability Testing

A Practical Guide for Librarians

AvRebecca Blakiston

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Do you want to improve the usability of your library website, but feel that it is too difficult, time-consuming, or expensive? In this book, you will learn that in-house usability testing on a budget is not only feasible, but it is practical, sustainable, and has the potential to lead to remarkable improvements of the content, design, and layout of your website. Usability Testing: A Practical Guide for Librarians will teach you how to:Make the case for usability testing Define your audience and their goalsSelect a usability testing method appropriate for your particular contextPlan for an in-house usability testConduct an effective in-house usability testAnalyze usability test results and make decisions based on those resultsCreate and implement a plan for ongoing, systematic usability testingStep-by-step instructions, along with a myriad of examples, allow you to use this book as a practical guide, and adapt the techniques for your own context. Techniques are appropriate for libraries of all types, including academic, public, and special libraries.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-09-29
Mått:217 x 279 x 9 mm
Vikt:431 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Practical Guides for Librarians
Antal sidor:148
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781442228993

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Rebecca Blakiston has been a librarian at the University of Arizona Libraries since 2008, and the website product manager since 2010. She provides oversight, management, and strategic planning for the library website, specializing in guerilla usability testing, writing for the web, and content strategy. She chairs a website steering group and meets regularly with staff from across the library to facilitate communication, training, and collaboration. She developed a process for in-house usability testing, which has been implemented successfully both within website projects and in an ongoing, systematic way.

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Usability Testing: A Practical Guide for Librarians is precisely what it sets out to be and exactly what library staff need in an age when strong user experience design is not only lauded but expected – a practical guide for librarians who realize aspects of their web interfaces aren’t working as well as they would like but aren’t sure what to do about it. Blakiston details the process of usability testing clearly, thoroughly and, most importantly, with librarians’ specialized needs and often limited resources in mind. A must-read for anyone committed to making library interfaces and websites more usable.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceAcknowledgementsChapter 1: Why Usability Testing MattersChapter 2: Conducting Your Own Usability TestingChapter 3: Identifying Your Audience and Their TasksChapter 4: Selecting a MethodChapter 5: Planning a Usability TestChapter 6: Conducting a Usability TestChapter 7: Analyzing Your Findings and Making ImprovementsChapter 8: Ongoing Usability TestingChapter 9: Keeping Up the MomentumAppendixIndexAbout the Author