TMI?

Sweating the details IS how you get good user experience design.

I am sometimes reminded of the Oscar Wilde quote:"I was working on the 
proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the 
afternoon I put it back again."

If you replace "poem" with "site" and "comma" with ".button 
{text-transform: uppercase; }", then I considerthat a day well-spent :)

Alex



On 2014-10-02 22:04, Brad Coffield wrote:
> So many responses to address! ah!
>
> The LITA support to this idea is lovely to see. Thank you very much.
>
> I agree that code4lib is awesome and that we could potentially create a
> document which would gain traction in the wider community BUT I really do
> think official support/integration is the best case scenario.
>
>
> Shaun, http://guidelines.usability.gov/ is a neat site and I'll have to
> explore it more, even just for myself. How does this differ from my vision
> of what we're discussing (to say nothing of Josh's vision or anyone else's):
>
> 1. I think that it makes best sense as far as official
> validation/circulation (and for ease of use by all librarian's regardless
> of experience) to have a much abbreviated document listing best practices.
> And works cited. And maybe an appendix with more information. A sort of
> list that the group could agree upon that "Well, if a library does these
> things they are well along the way to great usability." It wouldn't address
> a lot of the nitty gritty details that guidelines.usability.gov does, for
> example "13:9 Use Radio Buttons for Mutually Exclusive Selections." That is
> an excellent point but TMI for the document I'm describing.
>
> 1a. This document would be succinct enough that managing it would be easy.
> We need to have something easy to update or it risks becoming old and
> useless.
>
> 1b. I really like the point made by Christina about not re-inventing the
> wheel. And this is exactly where I'm coming from. Yes, there's a ton of
> great UX stuff out on the web but what would be a great service to
> libraryland would be for a group of knowledgeable librarians to come
> together and do all that research work and present everyone with a
> simplified 'wheel' for general use.
>
> 2. But I'm picturing a lot beyond this. Some sort of website (wiki,
> whatever) where library people are able to pool knowledge and resources.
> Best practices with libguides. Libguides customizations. I recently did a
> complete makeover on our Illiad site - I could share info/steps on how I
> did that, for example. People could share useful scripts etc. etc.
>
> The first document would primarily/exclusively be general web best
> practices but the second thing - that would go beyond.
>
> Just my thinking. I'm game to help whatever ends up taking shape :)
>
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