Well, the blog has been awful quiet lately, so I will try to restart a conversation with a request for feedback from the four of you.
A website project that I have been working on for the past year has just gone live: the Instruction Toolkit. I would like to try a little experiment here. Before I give too much background on what it is supposed to be about, browse around the section labeled “Find Documents” and let me know if it makes sense and if you think that you get it. I am a fan of the jump into the deep end sink or swim (browse) style of usability testing. I find that user first impressions are invaluable when designing a site and this is a work in progress.
I can follow up with a post about the work done on the project afterwords.
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Author comment by Dave | August 16, 2005 at 5:49 pm
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Steve -
This site is great on so many levels! The design is so clean, and those kids at the top are so attractive!
Seriously, the color scheme is very inviting, nice clean layout.
I like the variety of browse options you allow (particularly by librarian – I enjoyed looking at your work, Mr. Meyer). I admit that I instinctively clicked into the grouping on the left/top, “By Document Types,” before I realized I could go straight to “my” class number or department. It might be better to put departments in that spot? I don’t know.
I also appreciated the metadata you provide for each document.
Your website is the solution to a very basic problem I’ve experienced, which is the sharing of teaching materials between librarians. As of right now, I have very little in the way of standard handouts.
But it also brings home to me how dedicated some schools are to instruction – to really insinuating the BI stuff into the general curricula. I think that’s wonderful, I really do.
I look forward to your summary.
Yrs.,
Dave