“User experience is an important tool for libraries to employ against a number of competitors like bookstores and at-home Internet access. Libraries have taken this as an opportunity to provide services that are not available elsewhere. The strategy to focus on users and their needs has earned libraries strong support from the public as demonstrated by a recent Pew Internet study: an overwhelming 91% of Americans “say public libraries are important to their communities.” See the full article: Libraries: A Canvas for Creating Meaningful User Experience | UX Magazine.
Tag Archives: user experience
The Five Worst UX Mistakes Websites Make | UX Magazine
The Five Worst UX Mistakes Websites Make | UX Magazine
- Mistake #1: Paying too much Attention to the Macro and Short-Shrifting the Micro
- Mistake #2: Putting too much Time into Designing your Home Page
- Mistake #3: Relying too much on Text
- Mistake #4: Designing for the Wrong Generation
- Mistake #5: Ignoring Multi-Screen Behavior
Vevo Quietly Redesigns Its Homepage To Streamline Search, Navigation, And Playlist Creation | TechCrunch
I think the new Vevo homepage is a great example of the minimalist trend in user experience – minimizing the number of features and functions available for a more immersive user experience. I appreciate how Search is top center of the screen, but not so blatant in form and having transparency – it’s not continually distracting to the eye (as opposed to search on the Hula.com homepage, which is distracting).
The Top 5 Website UX Trends of 2012 | UX Magazine
The Top 5 Website UX Trends of 2012 | UX Magazine.
- Single Page Sites
- Infinite Scrolling
- Persistent Top Navigation or “Sticky Nav”
- The Death of Web 2.0 Aesthetics
- Typography Returns
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Keep an Eye on These Web Design Trends in 2013 | Mashable
Keep an Eye on These Web Design Trends in 2013 | Mashable
Trends include responsive web design, retina display, Twitter Bootstrap, content marketing, the freelance economy and development education.
The Six Greatest Breakthroughs in UX History | UX Magazine
This might be the most controversial piece I’ve submitted to UX Magazine. I gathered together an entire digital design agency to survey 20 years of Internet history and choose the five most important breakthroughs from a user experience perspective. Tears were shed. Blood was spilled. And in the end we compromised on six.
via The Six Greatest Breakthroughs in UX History | UX Magazine.
NYTimes.com — A Computer User’s Guide to Cloud Storage
Interaction-Design.org — Free Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction
Interaction-Design.org — Encyclopedia of Human-Computer Interaction
Great resource with 25 different chapters so far ranging on topics such as User Experience and Experience Design, End-User Development and Semiotics.
Quotable from the Website: “We’re on a mission to make free and open educational materials: There are so many great minds in the Human-Computer Interaction and Interaction Design community and we want to empower these authors to reach all their interested readers around the world. We believe these authors have the minds to change the world and deserve a publishing venue truly designed for the author and the reader, not the publisher and the profit.”
Collection of Links: User Experience
Two of the LIS courses I took this winter were Information Architecture: Web Design for Usability and Emerging & Evolving Technologies. Both courses reviewed at some point usability and the user experience. Although one may think of websites or applications first when discussing usability and/or the user experience, the concept can be applied to any space or thing. There is a lot of choice out there for consumers – companies and organizations can improve the user experience to generate loyalty and increase brand awareness.
User Experience Is The Heart Of Any Company. How Do You Make It Top Priority? from FastCompany
Why User Experience Is Critical To Customer Relationships from FastCompany
User Experience And The Poison On The Tip Of The Arrow from TechCrunch
UX Design as a Two-Way Conversation from UX Magazine
Cognition & The Intrinsic User Experience from UX Magazine
User Experience: The Reason Apple Towers Over Sony from Gizmodo
5 Signs of a Great User Experience from ReadWriteWeb
Mashable: The Ultimate Digital Customer Service Guide
The Ultimate Digital Customer Service Guide
Some of the tips in these articles can be applied to library and information services professions, such as number eight “14 Community-Driven Tips for Better Customer Relationships.”
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