Aims and objectives: BHO usability case study

Goal Identify mitigating strategies for the problem of information overload across three generic types of site facility: category listings, product listings, and search (form and results). This will enable the project to show an improved return on investment to all of...

Reflections on practice following first interview

Just finished my first user interview yesterday and a few things came up that I thought other practitioners might benefit from. Reviewing the current state of the site went well – lengthy and detailed discussion, focussed on page outcomes with only a skeletal...

IHR book sale

16 June 2011 – 18 June 2011 The imminent relocation of the IHR seemed like a good opportunity for a spring cleaning of our publications store.  We will not have enough room to house all of our books in our temporary space over in Senate House South, so we will...

The VCH red volumes

Author: Jessica Davies (VCH Publications Manager) As Publications Manager for the Victoria County History I must confess that, contrary to popular belief, I do not have my head buried in red volumes every day. Increasingly I find myself working ‘digitally’, whether on...

Programme Meeting for usability

Last Wednesday, we had a JISC programme meeting which all of the projects attended. There were some really high-profile projects there but I was suprised that so few ‘researchers’ attended – it was dominated by software professionals (I should...