Usability Testing - A Practical Guide for Librarians

Do you want to improve the usability of your library website, but feel that it is too difficult, time-consuming, or expensive? Usability Testing: A Practical Guide for Librarians will teach you how to make the case for usability testing, define your audience and their goals, select a usability testing method appropriate for your particular context, plan for an in-house usability test, conduct an effective in-house usability test, analyze usability test results, and create and implement a plan for ongoing, systematic usability testing. Step-by-step instructions, along with a myriad of examples, allow you to use this book as a practical guide, and adapt the techniques for your own context. Techniques are appropriate for libraries of all types, including academic, public, and special libraries.

Table des matières

Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1: Why Usability Testing Matters
Chapter 2: Conducting Your Own Usability Testing
Chapter 3: Identifying Your Audience and Their Tasks
Chapter 4: Selecting a Method
Chapter 5: Planning a Usability Test
Chapter 6: Conducting a Usability Test
Chapter 7: Analyzing Your Findings and Making Improvements
Chapter 8: Ongoing Usability Testing
Chapter 9: Keeping Up the Momentum
Appendix
Index
About the Author

A propos de l'auteur

Rebecca Blakiston

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Rebecca Blakiston, Blakiston Rebecca
• Edition: Rowman and Littlefield
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre Broché
• Sortie: 29.09.2014
• EAN: 9781442228993
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-2899-3
• Pages: 148
• Dimensions: 212 mm x 278 mm x 10 mm
• Thèmes: The Practical Guides for Librarians Series; Practical Guides for Librarian; Practical Guides for Librarian; Practical Guides for Librarians
• Catégories: Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Informatique, ordinateurs; Sciences sociales, droit, économie > Médias, communication > Librairies, bibliothèques; IT, Internet and electronic resources in libraries, IT, Internet & electronic resources in libraries