1. Project Plan: Searching the UCI Library Website
Wael Alkowaileet, Boaz Gurdin, Yifan Ying, Qinglin Xia
Oct 13, 2011

2. Library Website Homepage

3. Library Website Homepage
Ask a Librarian
The Melvyl Search Tool
The Find Section
Link you to the database Catalogue
Featured Resource
Give you recommendation on featured database

4. Problem ?
Librarians
Faculty
Databases
Students

5. Problem
Librarians
Faculty
Students
Databases
Library Homepage

6. User types General Humanities Science Medical Business UnderGrad Grad
Faculty
Librarian

7. Researchers Librarians
User types
General
Humanities
Science
Medical
Business
UnderGrad
Grad
Faculty
Librarian
Researchers
Librarians

8. Interviewing librarians
Schedule
We have done:
We are going to do:
Interviewing librarians
Usability test 1
Improve the Design
Focus group
Google analytics
Final Presentation
Week
Competitive analysis
Paper prototype
Website prototype
Heuristic evaluation
Cognitive walkthrough
Finish librarian interviews
Refine project goals
Get last year’s survey
Usability test 2
Improve the Design

9. Summary Problem Methods Time Plan Interviews Focus-Groups
Regular-user/Power-user => Researchers/Librarians
Methods
Time Plan
Pairs, Everybody participates
Heuristic Evaluation of Prototypes
Interviews
Google-Analytics
Iterative Usability Test
Focus-Groups
Cognitive Walkthrough

10. Thank you.
Questions?