Cult of Done
I’ve always been a fan of Bre Pettis’ Cult of Done Manifesto. It’s been hanging in my various offices over the past four years and has always motivated me to DO. To stop drafting and DO; to stop editing and DO; to stop perfecting and JUST DO. The other day, while on a lengthy conference ...
Paper Adventures
Adorable Paper Adventures by Kouichi Chiba alice, mymodernmet.com The next time you think you need fancy materials to create art that excites, just remember the name Kouichi Chiba. The Japanese photographer from Shizuoka has captured the hearts and minds of the curators of 500px who recently featur…
Monthly Usability Testing: the Best Idea Ever
Check out this notice on the GVSU website about monthly website usability testing. I hear a lot of talk about continual testing and iterative changes on a rapid development cycle, but I haven’t seen many such notices on library websites. So much to love here: the open call for participation, the brief outline of the ...
Tumbling
I’ve been posting random bits and pieces to a Tumblr blog for a while now, so maybe you want to head over there for fresh content. Someday soon I’ll figure out what that means for this space (integrate the two? ditch this domain?), but for now, I’m just enjoying the ease and fun of Tumblr ...
HathiTrust Personas
HathiTrust Personas This has been out for a while but I’m only just digging in: In 2011, the HathiTrust UX Advisory Group developed a set of personas to represent users of the HathiTrust Digital Library. The seven personas draw from past usability evaluations, user research, user-generated comments and feedback, web analytics, observations of use collected by the ...
Learning Space Toolkit, Data Gathering Tools
Learning Space Toolkit, Data Gathering Tools via ethnographr: The Learning Space toolkit looks like a neat resource to help design and plan libraries/learning spaces. Of particular interest is the section on Data Gathering Tools that includes a bunch of ethnographic methods (like observations, interviews, photo diaries, focus groups, etc.) and ideas/resources for each. No better ...
ethnographr: user research in libraries
A few colleagues & I have started a little UX in Libraries group in Ontario as a way to bring together UX librarians and other practitioners to talk about our work and our methodologies and techniques. In the interest of sharing what we do, not just amongst ourselves but with the rest of the library/UX ...
This is what bitter disappointment looks like
This is what bitter disappointment looks like If you think I have been unfair in what I have said, by all means try to persuade me to change my mind. But you won’t do it by simply whingeing and saying you don’t like it. You’ll have to come up with meaty reasons to demolish my ...
