In April-May 2022, Meg McMahon, the newest member of the URC team helped lead a study focused on users’ experiences of Widener Library. Over 130 participants provided insights into their experiences using Widener Library. The goal of the project was to understand participants' user needs and possible opportunities to improve wayfinding and services.Come and learn how the team used a three prong approach, staff interviews, intercept interviews with patrons, and an exit survey for users to understand users’ wayfinding needs within Widener.MEG 

Meg McMahon (they/them) is...

Join us for User-Centered Design for Instructors presented by Amy Deschenes and Emily Coolidge-Toker.

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In this workshop participants will learn how to apply content strategy and user-centered design practices to learning objects. Learning objects include deliverables like handouts, slide decks, videos, webpages, Canvas modules, Libguides, and others. Participants will leave the workshop with a concrete action plan for creating an effective learning object. 

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Description: In A Web for Everyone, the first principle of Accessible UX is “People First: Designing for differences, where people are the first consideration, and sites are designed with the needs of everyone in the audience in mind.” In practice, accessibility efforts tend to focus on technical and procedural considerations, like complying with policy, conforming to standards, and fixing accessibility bugs. In this session we will explore tools and techniques that promote a people-first approach to accessibility by directing attention toward addressing people’s needs, promoting quality...

Join us for (Co-)Designing a visual research tool using Harvard Digital Collections, presented by Luis Mossburger

Large digital and digitized collections bring a problem for libraries: How can such collections be presented to show the content of the collection as a whole, but also to enable efficient access to individual items? In this presentation, light will be shed on possible answers to this question, and research on information visualization with the example of the visual research tool "The Letters of William Ellery Channing".

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