2016-05-12 Meeting Notes

Owned by Elizabeth Altman (Unlicensed)
May 13, 2016
1 min read

Participants:

Elizabeth Altman - Northridge
Laurie Borchard - Northridge
Mike DeMars - Fullerton
Chris Langer - Fresno
Dave Walker - CO
Holly Yu - Los Angeles

Agenda

  • Elect a lead == Chris Langer
  • Meet monthly to start 
  • Scope of task(s) 
    • Focus on the New UI (with AngularJS customization package capability – general release is in August)
    • How users are using and navigating the website (navigation, language, labels, tools) --exclusive of collection content and results ranking
    • Includes discovery and user-facing services
    • Best practices of website experience applied to Primo.  Recommend usability standards.
    • Focus primarily on external students/faculty
    • Run usability studies; collect usability research and tests
    • Create a toolkit that contains: research, usability testing instruments and results
    • 3rd party integration working on AngularJS.  UX Task Force could request/vet/test customizations
    • Accessibility Testing
  • Go live priorities
    • ADA Roadmap – find weaknesses, communicate them to ExLibris
    • Run usability testing series against diverse campus populations to get good data.  Develop testing toolkits that can used without special software.
    • Develop interface design standards backed by solid usability data.
    • Usability/Accessibility + Testing Toolkit available (would include guidelines for mapping user stories/tasks, studies, and instructions for changing a few things like moving the facets to the left).  
  • Map out a timeline
    • Usability Testing Timeline:
      • June - 1st Release Candidate of New UI
    • Accessibility Timeline : 
      • August - General New UI release (accessibility issues fixed?)
  • Set research and consultation tasks
    • Who are our users and what are our tasks (Laurie share CSUN materials)
    • Articles on Library website usability (Chris)
    • Past usability studies (Mike)