This lecture details a number of initiatives undertaken at UTS Library to enhance the experience of both physical and digital environments. It focuses on the development of a consistent brand identity, website, library signage and social media.
Delivered to User Experience Design (Autumn 2015) students.
11. AUT recently updated their
Library website
Prominence of the Search Box
Responsive Design
Simplicity, conciseness and clarity
(They documented it, too, in a conference paper titled ‘Journey into the user
experience: creating a library website that's not for librarians’)
18. This stuff
always needs
to go in a big
long document
so you look
like you know
what you’re
talking about.
I was a small child then >
19.
20. Find
Catalogue
Databases
Articles
My Subject
Resources
eBooks
eJournals
SuperSearch
Where is it?
Special
Collections
Space
Room
Bookings
Computer
Availability
Campus
Maps & Hours
Floor Plans
For Me
For Us
Facilities &
Venue Hire
Print, Copy,
Scan
Borrow
MyLibrary
Membership
Borrow &
Renew
Open &
Closed
Reserve
Requests,
Recalls &
Returns
Bonus+
InterLibrary
Loans
Email & SMS
Notices
Fines
Research
Blog
Finding and
Managing
Information
Data
Management
Data Archives
Research
Tools
Writing for
Research
Copyright for
Research
Getting
Published
Promoting
Your
Research
Theses
Measuring
Research
Impact
Teaching
For Teachers
• Booking
Films
• Copyright
and Staff
• Distance
Education
• DRR &
eReadings
• Open
Educational
Resources
• Ordering
New
Material
• Reading
Lists
• Reserve
For Students
• Information
Literacy
• Referencing
• Students Off
Campus
• Study
Guides
• Study Skills
• Tours &
Workshops
UTS
ePRESS
UTS ePRESS
Publishing
UTS ePRESS
Repository
Open
Access
Learn
Deposit
Publish
About Us
Events
Organisationa
l Chart
Policies &
Guidelines
Collaboration
Special
Promotions
Staff Profiles
Library
Publications
Talk it Up!
Market Forum
University
Librarian Blog
Social Media
Surveys
Artist-in-
Residence
Program
News
Librarians
Future Library
Help
Answers
Study Guides
Ask a
Librarian
Referencing
Orientation
Study Skills
Tours and
Workshops
English
Language
International
Students
Indigenous
Students
Special
Needs
INSEARCH
Students
Forms
Glossary
Regional &
Remote
Students
April 2014
21. April 2015
Find
Catalogue
Databases
Articles
Subject
Resources
eBooks
eJournals
SuperSearch
Special
Collections
Facilities
Room
Bookings
Computer
Availability
Maps & Hours
Floor Plans
Library Spaces
Facilities &
Venue Hire
Printing
Borrow
MyLibrary
Membership
Borrow & Renew
Borrowing Rules
Borrowing from
Other Libraries
Fines
LRS Requests
Research
Research
Workshops
Research Blog
Research Tools
Finding and
Managing
Information
Data
Management
Data Archives
Theses
Writing for
Research
Copyright for
Research
Getting Published
Promoting Your
Research
Measuring
Research Impact
Learning
Learning.Futures
Information
Literacy
Course Material
Copyright and
UTS
DRR &
eReadings
UTS
ePRESS
UTS ePRESS
Publishing
OPUS
Open Access
Learn
Deposit
Publish
About Us
Artist-in-
Residence
Program
Future Library
Library
Publications
Library Staff
Past Events
Policies &
Guidelines
Special
Promotions
Survey Feedback
University
Librarian Blog
Help
Study Guides
Ask a Librarian
Referencing
Orientation
Study Skills
Tours &
Workshops
English
Language
Forms
Support for
Students
22. Referencing (530, 581)
Study Guides (56,065)
Orientation (2,936)
INSEARCH Students (1,431)
Glossary (843)
Regional and Remote Students (519)
28. At last! After some
negotiation, the
changes I had
suggested begun to
be implemented.
29. ‘A good user experience is not just about
having a functional and usable website
but also about your physical space - how
it looks, feels, smells and functions.’
(Schmidt & Etches 2014, p. 21)