Lisa H. -- Tasks for UX
Lisa's general schedule (for specifics, see the Exchange calendar)
Immediate
ACTION items for July 26:
- Link to recommendation re: Survey Gizmo for UX to see.
- Continue and focus on user needs review. (stories )
- (Nicole will investigate raw data from interviews)
- ALA review. Who were you able to talk to?
- Emailed Web of Science contact, Julia Hawks (julia.hawks@thomsonreuters.com)
- Emailed SFX contact, Christine Stohn (christine.stohn@exlibrisgroup.com)
Longterm
- Zoomerang: How do we archive surveys once our subscription runs out (Nov. 2011)?
- Plan for showing people how to use Survey Gizmo once we have it.
- User Needs review
- Review past user needs and usability studies (esp. report)
- Pull out key user goals; look at past list of methods, etc. for possible goals; to revisit those goals
- Pull stories that can illustrate certain user needs or problems (see interviews and written report)
- Where are interviews?
- 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. Ask Rich to get login (requested 7/12/10) for stats and possible documentation. Explore for possible other reports.
- 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)
- 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 (ISI? Others)
- Separately which of our web stats and SFX stats are useful, and educate how to use -- at many levels of organization
- Process for questions for user studies -- still on my list? was discussed at a UX strategy meeting? -- decided not to do right now
Actions for UX Strategy
Read and review design-thinking article and videos .
Nicole's great 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
Widgets
- 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.