Live Web Usability Lab @ Connecticut Library Association
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Explanation of usability and demonstration of Paul Marty's Usability@90mph at Connecticut Library Association, April 28, 2008. Presenters: Stephanie Willen Brown • Steve Cauffman • Carol Abatelli.
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- 2. Session based on Marty, Paul F. and Michael Twidale, “Usability@90mph: Presenting and Evaluating a New, High-Speed Method for Demonstrating User Testing in Front of an Audience.” FirstMonday . July, 2005: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_7/marty/
- 4. Please identify the woman on the next slide. Session will not continue until you have identified her.
- 6. Are you still waiting? It’s Lydia Maria Child , 1802-1880. Abolitionist and supporter of the Underground Railroad. Frustrated? That’s how our users feel! We make them answer a question that makes NO SENSE to them before we let them continue
- 15. Yipes! Why was that screen so different? It had a point: don’t change the look-n-feel without a good reason Users will notice and wonder.
- 18. Reading Online … Skimming Citations ERIC search: African Americans & mathematics
- 20. That question was taken from Jared Spool’s 1999 book Web Site Usability / a Designer’s Guide. What’s the answer? 3 Best Itineraries Did you get it?! Confused? That’s what happens to our patrons
- 26. Live Test @ iCONN
- 27. You really had to be there. If you’re interested in usability @ 90mph, please read … Marty, Paul F. and Michael Twidale, “Usability@90mph: Presenting and Evaluating a New, High-Speed Method for Demonstrating User Testing in Front of an Audience.” FirstMonday . July, 2005: http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_7/marty/
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- Start with some questions about creating / using web sites Ever had a problem using a web site? Your fault? Theirs? Important strategy to improve web sites is usability – and the focus of today’s talk… But first Who has a sense of what usability is? Anyone done any usability testing? Steve and Carol and I developed this presentation to show the value of usability testing and how important it is to good design. We based this on a paper I read and presentation I saw by Paul Marty, Assistant Professor in the College of Information @ Florida State. He assumes audience understands the value of good design, and I’ll review some design issues in the beginning of this presentation. I’ll also briefly define usability and the process of usability testing. Marty adds …