A new version of the faculty page on the library website launched today. With the help of Wayne Cheng from BCTC, Arthur, and Alexa Hagen, a library school intern who has been working with me, we drafted and tested the new page with substantial feedback from the people who’ll use it the most: our faculty. During the user-driven design process, we:
- analyzed comments from faculty in a campus-wide survey that asked about library services and resources
- gathered suggestions from the members of the Committee on the Library via a survey and a meeting
- tested the redesign with 6 faculty members (all three schools were represented) and incorporated additional tweaks to the redesign based on test results
It might be worth alerting faculty or departments you work with about this redesign. The testing revealed that faculty found it easier to complete tasks with this new page and, thanks to the increased browsability of the page, they learned about services and resources previously unknown to them.
If you have suggestions for pages or common library tasks that might merit this kind of usability treatment, let me know so we can work together.