Lisa H. -- Tasks for UX
Immediate
ACTION items for June 16:
- Evaluate Survey Monkey and Survey Gizmo. Which works best with screen readers, meets other needs?
- Begin longterm user needs review. Have some stories and data for start of discussion.
- Investigate widgets
Lisa's general schedule (for specifics, see the Exchange calendar)
This page is very out of date. Current projects for UX are space and digital scholarship study work.
Immediate
- Lead UX Assessment for systemwide assessment objectives.
- Usage Statistics
- Write up findings related to IP addresses. Is there a way to separate out staff IP addresses?
- Consider other reports -- share various reports with different groups who might benefit from them. Write up a summary of what each report offers?
- Begin investigation of other web usage stats. Write up report re: Web of Science -- what its reports offer.
Longterm
- Zoomerang: How do we archive surveys once our subscription runs out (Nov. 2011)?
- User Needs review
- Review past user needs and usability studies (esp. report) (in process)
- Pull out key user goals; look at past list of methods, etc. for possible goals; to revisit those goals (in process)
- Pull stories that can illustrate certain user needs or problems (see interviews and written report) (in process)
- Where are interviews? Follow up with Nicole.
- Look at Nicole's slides from talks about photo diary study, for interesting charts or summaries
- Look at other assessment for ideas of what user needs we already know about
- Ask Us! questions and known items: trends?
- Usage Statistics investigations:
- SFX stats -- See https://wikis.mit.edu/confluence/display/LIBVERAMETALIB/Stats+from+SFX for reports that we currently keep. Explore for possible other reports. (done)
- Google Analytics -- meet with Darcy to show me what she knows. Any web site we own (not Illiad for example; not pages served by web.mit.edu. Brio Query reports are possible -- Marion puts code on pages, e.g. "database is cancelled" page) (Met with Darcy. Will begin to review Google Analytics along with others )
- libraries.mit.edu/usage pages -- free open source program called Analog – Investigate
- Heat Map by Crazy Egg -- Google does have one that is a little ugly. Look for other products? Consider use? Is it there?
- Userfly -- similar to crazy egg
- Scholarly Stats – learn more about
- Individual vendors (investigated Web of Science; consider others?)
- Separately which of our web stats and SFX stats are useful, and educate how to use -- at many levels of organization
- Continue culling info from user needs review. (stories\ and unsolved user needs\). See also UX brainstorm of unsolved user needs\.
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- will investigate raw data from interviews) – ask further about this
- Follow up with gathering information from other sources (library survey? other? maybe below?) so we can begin to triangulate data.
Actions for UX Strategy
Read and review design-thinking article and videos .
Nicole's ideas for me
Reading
- Understanding Your Users, by Courage and Baxter
- How scientists should speak to people so they understand Don't be such a Scientist: Talking Substance in an Age of Style by Randy Olson
- How to Stifle Creativity, Harvard Business Review article
Widgets (reviewed; list is for future knowledge)
- Goodreader -- app to read pdfs
- Instapaper.com -- app to save pages to read later
- Foursquare -- social media with locations?
- Gowalla -- location-based social networking game
- Dropbox -- Dropbox is a file hosting service operated by Dropbox, Inc. which uses cloud computing to enable users to store and share files and folders with others across the Internet using file synchronization.