Evaluate and Improve Your Library Website in 10 Steps (Part 1)
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This document provides 10 steps for evaluating and improving a library website, beginning with usability and conventions. It recommends conducting user research to understand gaps between user needs and the current site. Key steps include evaluating the site navigation, scope of content, and rewriting content for clear tasks. The document stresses designing first for critical tasks on mobile devices and iterating site changes based on user feedback.
Evaluate and Improve Your Library Website in 10 Steps (Part 1)
- 1. EVALUATE & IMPROVE YOUR LIBRARY WEBSITE IN 10 STEPS PART ONE: USABILITY & CONVENTIONS AMANDA ETCHES AARON SCHMIDT
- 4. USER GAP
- 7. OPINIONS
- 8. USABILITY AND CONVENTIONS
- 11. NAVIGATION SCOPE REWRITE MOBILE FIRST ITERATION
- 12. NAVIGATION
- 13. WHERE AM I? WHERE CAN I GO? WHAT CAN I DO? HOW DO I SEARCH?
- 14. BE CONSISTENT
- 16. WARNING!
- 17. WARNING!
- 18. WARNING!
- 19. WARNING!
- 22. MATCH LABELS & PAGE NAMES
- 27. USE BREADCRUMBS
- 28. NAVIGATION RESEMBLES YOUR ORG CHART? YOU’RE DOING IT WRONG!
- 29. SCOPE
- 30. JUNK DRAWER SYNDROME flickr.com/photos/29541077@N00/4711956912
- 31. SIGNAL:NOISE
- 36. SMALLER IS BETTER
- 37. LESS IS LESS
- 39. PARTICIPATORY DESTINATION BASIC
- 40. ! DESIGN FOR CRITICAL TASKS
- 42. REWRITE YOUR SITE
- 49. How do you feel about reading this text? This might be a perfectly acceptable way to write a research paper or novel but websites aren’t for reading. Sorry to break it to you. People don’t want to read your website. They want to find your information. They’re on a mission and all of the extra text you’re putting on the screen is getting in the way of letting them accomplish their goals.
- 52. REMOVE WORDS
- 53. WARNING!
- 55. MOBILE FIRST
- 68. RESPONSINATOR
- 69. READ THIS
- 70. ITERATE
- 80. Library closed Tuesday, November 11th
- 83. THIS TOO
- 84. “CONVENTIONAL” SITES
- 93. ?????
- 94. THANKS!! AMANDA ETCHES AARON SCHMIDT WEAREINFLUX.COM [email protected]