Web Site Standards for Usability and Design

[Cindy]

This is a direct link to Nielsen's Ten Usability Heuristics (
http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html ) and I've found
this page extremely helpful in explaining them (
http://designingwebinterfaces.com/6-tips-for-a-great-flex-ux-part-5 ).

Cynthia Zweier

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:38 PM, Nina Mchale <milehighbrarian at gmail.com>wrote:

> UX has had its own day-long track at Computers in Libraries and Internet
> Librarian for the past coupla years; might be worth checking out the
> presentation archives for quick tips, case studies, and practical examples.
> Amanda Etches-Johnson's 5-step UX process as presented last October at IL
> was excellent.
>
> Nina
>
> Nina McHale
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 2:32 PM, Michael Schofield <mschofield at nova.edu>wrote:
>
>> Hi Carolyn,
>>
>> There are the stock usability.gov standards, plus a lot of work done by
>> Jakob Nielsen (http://www.useit.com) as well as the W3C Web Accessibility
>> Initiative (http://www.w3.org/WAI). For HTML5 standards and debunking
>> some
>> element myths, I use http://html5doctor.com/ instead of the hard-to-read
>> W3C
>> HTML5 spec. There are also good code validators out there. You may want to
>> familiarize yourself with ARIA Roles, which are useful for allowing screen
>> readers to make sense of your website. Here's the doc
>> (http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/roles).
>>
>> I'm not sure what you follow or are familiar with, so here are some recent
>> random resources:
>>
>> I just read the book "User Experience (UX) Design for Libraries" which,
>> published this year, is relatively up to date. It's a good jumping-off
>> point
>> for a library redesign project. It's a quick read and it focuses on
>> responsive design. Here's the GoodReads Link
>> (
>> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/14905971-user-experience-ux-design-for-l
>> ibraries).
>>
>> IMHO, for your library website to live without major subsequent redesigns
>> for a couple years, your team should really focus on making it
>> future-friendly and responsive - unless you have another strategy for
>> serving-up optimized content to multiple devices (maybe you have an app
>> or a
>> separate mobile site, I don't know).
>>
>> Andrew Careaga last week posted a future-friendly Friday Five inspired by
>> a
>> presentation by Dave Olsen (his site, Mobile in Higher
>> Ed--www.dmolsen.com--is full of resources) that I think is useful:
>>
>> 1. The future-friendly manifesto (http://futurefriend.ly) -> a new[ish],
>> important design philosophy in the web community.
>> 2. Future-Ready Content
>> (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/future-ready-content)
>> 3. Mobile web best practices (http://mobilewebbestpractices.com)
>> 4. Mobilekarma.com (http://www.mobilekarma.com/)
>> 5. Go Mobile at Texas A&M: their mobile strategy, WITH A LOT OF RESOURCES
>> (http://gomobile.tamu.edu/)
>>
>> Matthew Riedsma posted his ALA Annual presentation on Responsive Web
>> Design
>> for Libraries here (http://matthew.reidsrow.com/articles/23) and he
>> lists 18
>> additional resources.
>>
>> Sorry for the scattered email O_o. Feel free to get in touch with me for,
>> well, anything.
>>
>> Michael Schofield | mschofield at nova.edu
>> Front-End Librarian at NSU
>>
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Web technologies in libraries [mailto:WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On
>> Behalf Of Blatchley, Carolyn
>> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2012 3:55 PM
>> To: WEB4LIB at LISTSERV.ND.EDU
>> Subject: [WEB4LIB] Web Site Standards for Usability and Design
>>
>> As we move toward a web site redesign project, I'm looking to the
>> community
>> for advice on the most current web site standards, specifically those for
>> public libraries. Do you have a favorite publication or web resource that
>> you've recently used?
>>
>> I respect the information outlined at http://www.usability.gov/ and the
>> related publication found there called "The Research-Based Web Design &
>> Usability Guidelines, Enlarged/Expanded Edition", but it was issued by the
>> U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services in August 2006 and it seems to me
>> there could be something more recent.
>>
>> Looking forward to hearing what others are using!
>>
>> Carolyn Blatchley
>> Training Services Coordinator
>> Cumberland County Library System
>> 1601 Ritner Highway, Suite 100
>> Carlisle, PA 17013-9380
>> 717.240.5379 | cblatchley at ccpa.net
>> cumberlandcountylibraries.org
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