Alex Johannesen said:
"The big problem is mostly with the processes libraries use for development, where usability testing is - if there's any room or thought to it - tacked on at the end of the project, totally missing the point...If libraries applied a more user-centered design process things would run much smoother, and you'll end up with much better products."
I think I have to agree with that...
Bernie Sloan
--- On Mon, 3/16/09, Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen_at_GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> From: Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen_at_GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] Browse functionality (was Whose elephant is it, anyway? (the OLE project))
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Date: Monday, March 16, 2009, 8:12 PM
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 02:17, Janet Hill
> <Janet.Hill_at_colorado.edu> wrote:
> > I don't think it's that our search engines are
> so dreadful that we can't
> > find much useful research on these topics. I think
> that there isn't much
> > done. Certainly not enough.
>
> Indeed. I've done a few reports, mostly with
> accessibility for the
> blind and heavily sight impaired, and of course found heaps
> and
> buckets of stuff (and quite a bit of grave and disastrous
> stuff) for
> improvement. The big problem is mostly with the processes
> libraries
> use for development, where usability testing is - if
> there's any room
> or thought to it - tacked on at the end of the project,
> totally
> missing the point (and hence, if there is a report of
> sorts, it will
> be buried and people will try hard to forget about it
> because you
> didn't sort out your kinks earlier and now "we
> just got to ship it,
> ok?"). If libraries applied a more user-centered
> design process things
> would run much smoother, and you'll end up with much
> better products.
>
> > (and you notice, I'm not volunteering)
>
> Perhaps you should? :)
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Alex
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Received on Mon Mar 16 2009 - 23:20:04 EDT