As more and more content was added to British History Online (BHO), the listings pages and search results became longer and users were confronted by growing amounts of information which they would need to sift through to help them decide on which sources were going to...
Page Listings and source Heuristic Subjective Description Listings pages are sequenced by an editorial weighting: if a user remembers a source by time period, or by name, they have no way of re-ordering the list. Although source pages are arranged alphabetically, they...
Page Listings Heuristic Learnability Description A page listing sources for a specific taxonomy dimension will list the most relevant sources at the top. However, they are visually indistinct from sources which contain a lower quantity of relevant content. Impact...
Page Listings Heuristic Learnability Description First time users, who might arrive through a search engine, have very little introductory text with which to ‘ground’ themselves. What explanation there is tells users where to find things, not what those...
Page Source Heuristic Memorability Description For a set of local history volumes, there is no visual way to assess coverage over what could be a substantial amount of data. Impact severity High Recommend If the source contains a map showing coverage, then provide...
Page Source Heuristic Learnability Description If a source is structured by theme, then the only way to find a specific theme is to go through each volume’s table of contents looking for it. This is frustrating as the publication sequence of sources is often not...
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