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| author | Minkel, Walter |
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| contents | How Does Your Site Measure Up? If Traffic Is Sparse, It's Time for a Serious Usability Study Minkel, Walter Web Sites Libraries Evaluation Methods User Satisfaction (Information) Language Usage Adolescent Attitudes Librarians seldom give enough thought to the needs of potential Web-site visitors. Few librarians, for example, stop to consider how they can make their sites easy to use or more attractive. As a result, many sites have awful color schemes, hard-to-find navigation buttons, inappropriate font sizes, and confusing layouts. No wonder they don't attract much traffic. Lisa Hill did, a Web services librarian at the King County (WA) Library System, ran a website usability study on her library's site. She hired a research firm and, in several sessions, invited 24 site users--both adults and teens--to participate in a usability study. She discovered that it's best to use language that is easily understood by the average person rather than use library jargon. The study is described in this article. |
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| spellingShingle | How Does Your Site Measure Up? If Traffic Is Sparse, It's Time for a Serious Usability Study Minkel, Walter Web Sites Libraries Evaluation Methods User Satisfaction (Information) Language Usage Adolescent Attitudes How Does Your Site Measure Up? If Traffic Is Sparse, It's Time for a Serious Usability Study Minkel, Walter Web Sites Libraries Evaluation Methods User Satisfaction (Information) Language Usage Adolescent Attitudes Librarians seldom give enough thought to the needs of potential Web-site visitors. Few librarians, for example, stop to consider how they can make their sites easy to use or more attractive. As a result, many sites have awful color schemes, hard-to-find navigation buttons, inappropriate font sizes, and confusing layouts. No wonder they don't attract much traffic. Lisa Hill did, a Web services librarian at the King County (WA) Library System, ran a website usability study on her library's site. She hired a research firm and, in several sessions, invited 24 site users--both adults and teens--to participate in a usability study. She discovered that it's best to use language that is easily understood by the average person rather than use library jargon. The study is described in this article. |
| title | How Does Your Site Measure Up? If Traffic Is Sparse, It's Time for a Serious Usability Study |
| topic | Web Sites Libraries Evaluation Methods User Satisfaction (Information) Language Usage Adolescent Attitudes |
| url | https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ702344 |