Project Sites:
University
of Arizona Library Web Design Project
University
of Minnesota Libraries Web Design Project (incl. web sites on usability/interface
design)
University
of Minnesota Online Tutorial Project
University
of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries' Web Redesign Project
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Caswell, Jerry V. "Building an Integrated User Interface to Electronic Resources." Information Technology and Libraries 16 (June 1997): 63-72.
Connaway, Lynn Silipigni and others. "Online Catalogs from the Users Perspective: The Use of Focus Group Interviews." College & Research Libraries 58 (September 1997): 403-420.
Diaz, Karen. "User Success in a Networked Environment." RQ 36 (Spring 1997): 393-407.
Dickstein, Ruth and others. "Testing for Usability in the Design of a New Information Gateway." Paper presented at Living the Future2, Tucson, Arizona, April 1998. [Online]. <http://dizzy.library.arizona.edu/library/teams/access9798/lft2paper.htm>
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Eliasen, Karen and others. "Navigating Online Menus: A Quantitative Experiment." College & Research Libraries 58 (November 1997): 509-516.
Fowler, Susan. "Appendix
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Hill, 1998.
<http://www.fast-consulting.com/appb.htm>
Garlock, Kristen L. and Sherry Piontek. Designing Web Interfaces to Library Services and Resources. Chicago: American Library Assoc., 1999.
Gillespie, Joe. Web Page Design for Designers. [Online]. <http://www.wpdfd.com/wpdhome.htm>
Glitz, Beryl. "The Focus Group Technique in Library Research: An Introduction." Bulletin of the Medical Library Association 85 (October 1997): 385-90.
Johnson, Debra Wilcox. "Focus Groups." In The Tell it! Manual: The Complete Program for Evaluating Library Performance. Chicago, Ill.: American Library Assoc., 1996. Pp. 176-87.
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Loomis, Abigail and Lee Konrad. "Getting Students 'CLUED' into the Library: Developing a Multimedia Instruction Package for Undergraduates." In Theory and Practice. Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of LOEX. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Pierian Press, 1998. Pp. 29-33.
Loomis, Abigail and Deborah Fink. "Instruction: Gateway to the Virtual Library." In The Virtual Library: Visions and Realities. Edited by Laverna Saunders. Westport, Conn.: Meckler, 1993. Pp. 47-69.
Martin, Alexander and David Eastman. The User Interface Design Book. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1996.
Nielson, Jakob. "Finding Usability Problems through Heuristic Evaluation," In Conference Proceedings on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1992. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1992. Pp. 373-80.
Nielson, Jakob. Usability Engineering. Boston, Mass.: Academic Press, 1993.
Nielsen, Jakob. useit.com:
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<http://www.useit.com>
Neilsen, Jakob and Darrell Sano. (1995). "SunWeb: User Interface Design for Sun Microsystem's Internal Web." [Online]. Sun Microsystems. <http://www.sun.com/sun-on-net/uidesign/sunweb>
Norman, Donald A. Design of Everyday Things. New York: Doubleday, 1990.
Rubin, Jeffrey. Handbook of Usability Testing: How to Plan, Design, and Conduct Effective Tests. New York: Wiley, 1994.
Sachs, David and Henry Stair, 1997. 7 Keys to Effective Web Sites. Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1997.
Shneiderman, Ben. Designing the User Interface: Strategies for Effective Human-Computer Interaction. 3rd ed. Reading, Mass: Addison Wesley Longman, 1998.
Spool, Jared. Web Site Usability: A Designers' Guide. North Andover, Mass.: User Interface Engineering, 1997. <http://www.uie.com>
Valentine, Barbara. "Undergraduate Research Behavior: Using Focus Groups to Generate Theory." Journal of Academic Librarianship 19 (November 1993): 300-4.
Veldof, Jerilyn and others. "Chauffeured by the User: Usability in the Electronic Library." Journal of Library Administration 26 (1999): 115-40.
Widdows, Richard and others. "The Focus Group Interview: A Method for Assessing Users' Evaluation of Library Service." College and Research Libraries 52 (July 1991): 352-59.
Young, Vicki. "Focus on Focus
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Last Updated: 4/2/99
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