jiscUX: Usability and ‘Learnability’ projects funded
JISC has recently funded a number of projects as part of the grant funding call 01/11: Digital infrastructure: Embedding usability & improving the uptake of resources & tools. Most projects...
View ArticleUsability Workshop – Emerging Themes from jiscUX
The following blog post is a brief report from a recent usability workshop held in central London. Programme managers Ben Showers and Torsten Reimer describe some of the themes that emerged from the...
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Putting the User at the Heart of Education
This is an update on a recent Usability workshop held by Ben Showers and Torsten Reimer as part of their work on the Usability and Adaptability of User-Interfaces. Background As universities and...
View ArticleThe JISC ebooks universe
My colleague Ben Showers has recently been looking across the work taking place around digital books in all their forms: open textbooks, digital monographs, epub, web-based books. For educational...
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Redesigning Library Systems and Services
Who’d have thought that a redesigned library website could attract quite so much attention. Yet, the recent announcement by Stanford’s University Library that it has redesigned its website seems to...
View ArticleDigital Library User Experience – A video from the future!
I was asked to present a short ‘provocation’ on the topic of the Digital User Experience for the SCONUL winter conference 2012, and the impact this will have on the future of library skills. The...
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