Posts Tagged ‘ user experience ’

Top Ten Links – Week 3

January 22, 2010
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Top Ten Links – Week 3

My hand selected best links I shared on Twitter from 1/14/2010 through 1/21/2010 in no particular oder: not enuf women have what it takes to behave like arrogant self-aggrandizing jerks Clay Shirky’s “Rant About Women” post. Both men and women should read this. I meant to blog my reaction to it but have run out of time, I may still do it next week. In a nutshell I agree with him. RT @toptechtrends @sirexkathryn Talking about copia – @griffey and about blio #alamwttt#alamw10 – Take a look at blio & copia, I know I mentioned them in my Top Tech Trends notes, but these 2 things are probably the biggest changes we’ve seen to ebooks and how they work sad to hear so much focus on tools & not the service they provide or needs they meet #alamw10 – This isn’t a link, its one of my tweets but I think it’s so important I’m including it. If you’ve heard me speak you’ve heard me say stop focusing on the tools, focus on your patrons and what’s best for them. The Most Important Success Tip: Stop Lying Down with Dogs, Already from Johnny Truant over at Copyblogger. Did you know your salary & your habits are a reflection of

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My Notes from LITA Top Tech Trends at ALA MidWinter

January 21, 2010
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My Notes from LITA Top Tech Trends at ALA MidWinter

The panel consisted of David Walker, Amanda Etches-Johnson, Joe Murphy, Lauren Pressley, Jason Griffey and was moderated by Greg Silvis David Watson discovery systems to get the rss for a specific journal you need to visit the specific site or vendor, different silos for information, need to wait for vendors to create mobile system bring data together in aggregated system have one local for info if everything is all together in one place, books article etc does that really help students? are libraries giving up too much control to the cloud? Panel response Griffey – expected to see collapse of these databases and vendors fighting each other Etches – federated searching was a disaster, is discovery system better? David – system helps level playing field Amanda – user experience buzz word for 2009 People can’t agree on what it means, user experience design is about designing everything buildings etc, but interest for her (us) is web Visual design coupled with interactive design, how does that make our users feel? We aren’t ready to make our users feel we need to keep talking about user interface and usability Mobile interfaces are necessarily stripped down because they have to be Mobile browsing

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