Date
Attendees
- Tommy Keswick (Unlicensed)
- Brian Hoffman (Unlicensed)
- Mark Custer
- Jungleen Bae (Unlicensed)
- Susan Pyzynski (Unlicensed)
- Susan Luftschein
- Cate Putirskis (Unlicensed)
- Linda Hocking
- schwrtzse (Unlicensed)
- Cory Nimer
- Maura Carbone (Unlicensed)
- Matt Francis (Unlicensed)
- Claryn Spies (Unlicensed)
- Mariella Soprano
- Elisa Piccio
- Dara Flinn (Unlicensed)
- kferrante (Unlicensed)
Goals
- Find out status of Test Corpus
- Recap user testing
- Cliffnotes: Usability Testing General Observations
- Recordings of tests: https://vimeo.com/channels/943201 – password available on Slack channel, ask Rain or Tommy if you can't find it
- Questions from CHC about good/bad/desired UI elements
- Questions from CHC based on user testing and UI elements
- Input from Working Group on aesthetic design
- Discuss next steps & when WG should be prepared to respond to UI content
Meeting details
Eastern time: 12:30 pm
Central time: 11:30 am
Mountain time: 10:30 am
Pacific time: 9:30 am
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This meeting will be recorded.
Discussion items
| Time | Item | Who | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 min | Recap | Rain |
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| 5 min | Test Corpus | Angela |
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| 20 min | User testing | Rain |
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| 10 min | UI Elements | Rain |
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| 10 min | Aesthetic Design | Jungleen |
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| 5 min | Wrap up & questions | Rain |
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Meeting minutes
Recording:
NOTE: The first 11 minutes of the recording were missed. detailed notes are provided below. What was missed where insights from Dara, Mark, and Susan on their experience with the user testing.
Next steps:
- Mostly to be added after call. Known items pre-call:
- Continued review of / questions on JIRA issues by CHC and WG
- CHC working on wireframes
- CHC working on aesthetic design elements
- Next meeting
Detailed notes:
Test Corpus: Angela and Brian will have an update for us on the next call.
User Testing: Highlights
- Dara - both users were scholars who have worked with other finding aids. Found it difficult to identify where a particular component was coming from and the breadcrumb trail wasn’t obvious to them. Neither liked the verbiage in use. Would have found it helpful to have a button to see the whole finding aid. Neither found that the EAD PDF option was available, had to be directed to it.
- Mark - took both a long time to recognize the breadcrumbs. Even after recognizing them they still weren’t useful. When actually on a finding aid, neither realized that they can scroll down for a long time. Having agent and subject links on top made it seem that they couldn’t scroll. Search results as hyperlinked titles was really confusing. Context was really missing. Neither realized search terms were being “or’d” together.
- Susan - observations much the same. User experience librarian ran tests so she watched remotely. Graduate student and archivist. Confusion about sorting the results. No matter what type of result you had, choices of how you can sort them where the same even if they didn’t make sense. Things like the icons were confusing. Not sure what they meant or did. When labels are long, the … is unhelpful. Lack of context was the biggest issue.
- Sue - read notes and went through this recently with a researcher. Needs to be a better ability to create context.
- Scott - cliff notes, stunned b/c everything that was sighted here was cited in the two IL tests
STILL WORKING ON THIS
Action items
- To be added after call. Known items pre-call:
- WG to review questions from Rain's comment 2 on Examples of good, bad, and desired user experiences, and provide responses in additional comments
- WG to review questions related to JIRA issues on Questions from Cherry Hill, and provide responses in comments
- Tommy Keswick (Unlicensed) to provide initial Glossary of terminology used on ASpace and turn it over to Susan Luftschein to refine and make more human friendly
- CHC get initial wireframes to WG for review before next meeting
- CHC to get initial style tile concepts to WG to review before next meeting
- CHC to create an initial list of visual elements that can be easily modified through simple tools in bootstrap
- CHC post agenda for meeting