mobile site usability
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Mobile Library Website Checklist and basics of usability testing for mobile library sites...TRANSCRIPT
USABLE BY DESIGN PRACTICAL USABILITY CHECKLIST
FOR MOBILE WEBSITES
Tiffini Travis Access by Touch Conference
June 8, 2012
The purpose of this presentation is to introduce you to the usability checklist created by Tiffini Travis and Aaron Tay By the end of this session you should be able to Identify elements that encompass intuitive design Use heuristics to evaluate mobile website design Conduct usability testing at your own institution
Mobile usability?
The worst thing any librarian can say in the course of web design is… “well I don’t think students….” and not do the most reasonable thing: ASK THEM
But FIRST….
Use the Checklist to ensure you create a good site to test with
Mobile usability?
Heuristic Task-based Evaluation
2 different types of ways to conduct mobile usability
Heuristic evaluation is a proven method for discovering both major and minor problems in a user interface. Heuristic testing detects 42 percent of major design problems and 32 percent of minor issues
Jakob Nielsen
Nielsen, J. 1992. Finding usability problems through heuristic evaluation.
Proceedings ACM CHI'92 Conference (Monterey, CA, May 3-7): 373-380.
Creating a mobile usability checklist
To formulate a checklist for mobile design the following research questions were used to guide the process:
What current design features exist in mobile library websites and databases
What principles of usability have been developed for mobile interfaces and library sites and mobile library websites
What are the results of using the mobile checklist with current mobile library websites
The mobile usability checklist
Interface Design User Characteristics Content/Purpose
Types of mobile library sites….
Take a couple of minutes to review the usability checklist….
…Now let’s do our own mini version of heuristic evaluation on four sites
Database Usability
Next Steps….
Task-based Evaluation Traditional usability testing is a way to reveal problems in site design as well as the needs and attitudes of your users. Components include: Pre-Test of knowledge and attitudes Task performance evaluation Evaluate navigation while performing task as well as thought process Post-Test of attitudes and experience
Task-based Evaluation
Find the book the Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison What is the phone number for the Science Librarian? Find an article about African Elephants If you need research help which link would you click on?
Tricks and Tools
Springshare
Blogger
Wordpress
What have we learned?
Usability can be easy! Mobile design can be easy (and cheap)! Always ask your users what THEY want!
Tiffini Travis
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Tiffinianne.wordpress.com
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www.csulb.edu/~ttravis
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