2016-05-12 Meeting Notes

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)