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The User Experience

LibUX
June 03, 2015

The User Experience

This beginner-friendly​ workshop will focus on the fundamentals of user experience design, giving you a practical vocabulary for talking about the user experience of library web services. We will investigate useful models for identifying pain points and opportunities, which plot and rate the quality of the UX and its impact on the library’s bottom line. This is the kind of basic knowledge so many organizations require to effectively work user experience design through the layers of red tape.

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June 03, 2015
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  1. us·er ex·pe·ri·ence de·sign the measure of your end-user’s interaction with

    your library: its brand, its product, and its services. noun
  2. us·er ex·pe·ri·ence de·sign the measure of your end-user’s interaction with

    your library: its brand, its product, and its services. • plottable • predictable noun
  3. “Useful, usable, desirable: like three legs of a stool, if

    your library is missing the mark on any one of these it’s bound to wobble.”– Amanda Etches and Aaron Schmidt
  4. “The honeycomb hits the sweet spot by … helping people

    understand the need to define priorities. Is it more important for your [service] to be desirable or accessible? How about usable or credible? The truth is, it depends on your unique balance of context, content, and users, and the required tradeoffs are better made explicitly than unconsciously.” — Peter Morville
  5. useful useful = usable + utility “Usability and utility are

    equally important and together determine whether something is useful: it matters little that something is easy if it’s not what you want. It’s also no good if the system can hypothetically do what you want, but … is too difficult.” —Jakob Nielsen adjective
  6. What if your website disappeared? “We’re ever hopeful that if

    we advertise our websites in the right way, or create the right sort of graphic, or make the visual design more attractive, people will begin to use our content. This is pure fantasy.” —Aaron Schmidt
  7. Postive / Negative Question Pairs | Explain or demonstrate a

    feature – like the new Florida Ask a Librarian chat – then ask patrons how they would feel if 1) it was present, and 2) it wasn’t. 1. I like it 2. I expect it 3. I’m neutral 4. I can tolerate it 5. I dislike it
  8. us·er ex·pe·ri·ence de·sign the use of tools, techniques, and the

    creative application of behavioral knowledge about users to improve the user experience - which correlates to the success of the library mission and goals. noun
  9. Pay attention to how patrons use the library, and craft

    your services around their behavior.
  10. Heuristic Evaluation in Reverse • Find the problem/pain point •

    Think about a solution from a user’s perspective • Look for specific guidelines that apply • Look for specific best practices that apply • Otherwise, check the general heuristics and usability components. —Bohyun Kim
  11. As a _____________, I want to _______________________ so that __________________________.

    a young dad sign up for a library card check out books for my boy
  12. Touchpoints during Card Registration 1. Find out when the library

    is open on Saturday 2. Drive to the library and park 3. Make sure to pay enough for parking 4. Enter the library, approach the front desk, inquire 5. Fill out long paper form 6. Provide proof of residency and identification 7. Get Card
  13. Touchpoints during Card Registration 1. Find out when the library

    is open on Saturday 2. Drive to the library and park 3. Make sure to pay enough for parking 4. Enter the library, approach the front desk, inquire 5. Fill out long paper form 6. Provide proof of residency and identification 7. Get Card
  14. Poor content—or not enough content—not only reflects poorly on your

    library, but for channels like Facebook that highlight popular or relevant content, posts that bomb negatively impact the overall visibility of your brand.
  15. Delay User Reaction 0 - 100 ms Instant 100 -

    300 ms Feels sluggish 300 - 1000 ms Machine is Working ... 1+ second Mental Context Switch 10+ seconds Screw it.
  16. For every 1 second that the page takes to load

    there is 65% increase in bounce rate.
  17. As a _____________, I want to _______________________ so that __________________________.

    Rush-hour commuter find the library’s hours on mobile I can decide whether I have time to visit the library.
  18. Task Touchpoints 1. Glance haphazardly at phone while at a

    red light 2. Open the browser 3. Type the [long?] URL 4. Wait 15 seconds for the site to load 5. Locate hours 6. Green light – task ended
  19. Task Touchpoints 1. Glance haphazardly at phone while at a

    red light 2. Open the browser 3. Type the [long?] URL 4. Wait 15 seconds for the site to load 5. Locate hours 6. Green light – task ended
  20. “How can we, as librarians and library workers, incorporate professional

    values like information literacy and critical pedagogy with the principles of good user experience?” -- Amy
  21. It is easy to conflate the user’s “lack of skills”

    with our poor organizational and design choices. Often, a good user experience is closely tied to convention. We blame their inability to form proper research queries on their lack of information literacy, when in fact we are presenting a system that is wholly out of left field.