2023-2024 Usability Retrospective

Date

June 13, 2024

Date

June 13, 2024

Members

  • Susannah Broyles

  • Kellen Carpenter

  • Cory Nimer

  • Chris Tanguay

Charge

The charge of the Usability Subteam is to develop functional and practical recommendations to the program that streamline navigation, clarify the visual layout, identify accessibility improvements, and enhance the ease of use of the existing program for both the staff and public interface of the ArchivesSpace software application.

Accomplishments

  • Met monthly during the 2023-2024 term

  • Reviewed tickets assigned by the Development Prioritization Subteam

  • Gathered community feedback on multilingual description functionality in the application

  • Developed multilingual description use cases with the assistance of community volunteers

  • Presented at the ArchivesSpace Virtual Member Forum on community survey and use cases

Future Priorities

  • Public User Interface display of Agent records

  • Review of Jira tickets on usability issues as assigned by Development Prioritization Subteam

  • Review of Jira tickets listed as Awaiting More Information due to usability questions

2024-2025 Leadership

  • Lead: Susannah Broyles

  • Vice Lead: TBD