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User Pilot Study Tested
Our Original Goals:
• Time to complete tasks
• Ability to identify the optimal path through CDL resources
User Testing: Findings• Trouble identifying valuable source from
long browse list – rarely select the appropriate database.
• People still don’t understand different types of resources (especially databases vs. Electronic Journals)
• Minor improvement on understanding need for two-level search – still some attempt to search contents directly
Conclusions from the Evolution
• Important tension between being able to browse - see actual list of available stuff - and being funneled to best resources
• Important to know position within site
• Certain thorny problems persisted throughout the semester:
Outstanding Problems
• Choosing among obscure or unfamiliar source types
• Browsing long lists • seeing scope is important but length can be
overwhelming
• Clarity of two-level search
• Differentiating between Citation Indexes and Full-Text Resources
Lesson Learned...
• For doing UI design, we really need to have a truly cross-functional team including technical expertise.
… have the ideas but can’t sufficiently implement them into the design for testing...