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JSTOR has launched a new Labs team charged with partnering with the community to seek out new opportunities and refine and validate them through experimentation. The JSTOR Labs team has been using Flash Builds -- high-intensity, short-burst, user-driven development efforts -- in order to prototype new ideas and get to a user saying “Wow" in as little as a week. In this talk, I¹ll describe how we’ve done this, highlight the partnerships, skills, tools and content that help us innovate, and suggest ways that libraries can adopt these methods to support innovation and the digital humanities.
Learning Lean: Using Flash Builds to Learn from Your UsersAlex Humphreys
The JSTOR Labs team has been using Flash Builds – high-intensity, short-burst, user-driven development efforts – in order to prototype new ideas and get to a user saying “Wow” in as little as a week. In this talk, I’ll describe how we’ve done this. I’ll use two case studies to illustrate the importance of getting user input throughout the process, highlighting what your users can tell you – and what they can’t.
Making Open the Default in Scholarly Communication, and the Implications for ...SPARC Europe
Presentation: Making Open the Default in Scholarly Communication, and the Implications for the Future of Libraries
for QQML 2016
in London, UK
24-27 May 2016
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JSTOR has launched a new Labs team charged with
partnering with libraries and scholars to build innovative
tools for research and teaching. The JSTOR Labs team has
successfully used ‘flash builds’ – high-intensity, short-burst,
user-driven development efforts – in order to bring an idea
from conception to a working, user-delighting prototype in
as little as a week. In this talk the presenter will describe
the approach to flash builds, highlight the partnerships,
skills, tools and content that help to innovate, and suggest
ways that libraries can adopt these methods to support
innovation and the digital humanities.
JSTOR has launched a new Labs team charged with partnering with libraries and scholars to build innovative tools for research and teaching. The JSTOR Labs team has successfully used ‘flash builds’ – high-intensity, short-burst, user-driven development efforts – in order to bring an idea from conception to a working, user-delighting prototype in as little as a week. In this talk the presenter will describe the approach to flash builds, highlight the partnerships, skills, tools and content that help to innovate, and suggest ways that libraries can adopt these methods to support innovation and the digital humanities.
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Presentation of project outcomes during a 'breakfast meeting' at the University of Oslo. More information at the project site: bit.ly/visualnavigationproject
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providing opportunities to engage with alternative approaches to
disseminating scholarly work.
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Creating Infrastructure for Teaching Text Analytics - ASIS&T 2020 Panel on In...Alex Humphreys
JSTOR Labs is developing a new text mining platform for JSTOR, its sister organization Portico, and other corpora. While text mining has the potential to revolutionize research across disciplines, it requires coding skills and statistical knowledge that may take years to learn. JSTOR Labs has tried to mitigate this problem through a new platform for creating, visualizing, and linking datasets within a hosted JupyterHub environment, which incorporates popular code packages for topic modeling, sentiment analysis, and more. The platform allows users to start text mining without the hassle of configuring an environment. It also provides an opportunity for common infrastructure for teaching text mining: the platform will feature a library of open education resources—Jupyter notebooks with accompanying lesson plans—which will make it easier to teach and learn text mining, without hiding complexity or nuance.
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providing opportunities to engage with alternative approaches to
disseminating scholarly work.
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Building Your Next Great Product by Talking to Users Each Step of the Way
1. BUILDING YOUR NEXT
GREAT PRODUCT
BY TALKING TO USERS
EACH STEP OF THE WAY
11 October 2016
Alex Humphreys, JSTOR Labs
@abhumphreys
SSP Webinar 2016
2. JSTOR is a not-for-profit
digital library of academic
journals, books, and primary
sources.
Ithaka S+R is a not-for-profit
research and consulting service
that helps academic, cultural,
and publishing communities
thrive in the digital
environment.
Portico is a not-for-profit
preservation service for digital
publications, including
electronic journals, books, and
historical collections.
ITHAKA is a not-for-profit organization that helps the academic
community use digital technologies to preserve the scholarly record
and to advance research and teaching in sustainable ways.
3. JSTOR Labs works with partner publishers, libraries and
labs to create tools for researchers, teachers and students
that are immediately useful – and a little bit magical.
4. THE TROUBLE WITH
H2 & H3 INNOVATION
Horizon 1 Horizons 2 & 3
• Horizon 1 = core business
• Innovation usually seeks
operational efficiencies
• You know the market, the
product, etc.
• You can make reasonable
predictions about both
cost to develop and how
market will react
• Horizons 2 & 3 = new
products, new markets &
new businesses
• “If you build it, they will
come.”
• You don’t even know what
“it” is
• Or who “they” are
Horizons framework:
https://paul4innovating.com/2010/09/10/the-three-horizon-approach-to-innovation/
5. Q: If H2 and H3 are so uncertain,
how do you find your way to a
sustainable new product or business?
The Design Squiggle, by Damien Newman:
http://cargocollective.com/central/The-Design-Squiggle/
6. A: Lots of short iterations + lots of
user feedback = speeding up the
learning cycle
Innovation isn’t one big “Eureka,”
it’s a thousand little ones.
7. HERE’S HOW
JSTOR LABS
DOES IT
1. Create the sandbox
2. Research
3. Design jam
4. Select an approach
5. Refine approach
6. Release & measure
8. 1. CREATE THE
SANDBOX
• Some combination of partner,
target user and new
technology/approach
• This is usually not the same as the
“idea”
Case study: Understanding Shakespeare
• Partnership with Folger Shakespeare Library
• We were interested in finding ways to link their full text plays with
the scholarship on JSTOR
9. 2. RESEARCH • User research & technical
exploration
• Understand users’ context,
language, etc.
• What does success look like for
them? What stands in their way?
• Entire team joins user research
• What stands in the way of that
success?
Case study: Understanding Shakespeare
• User research:
- Skype interviews w/ 5-7 Shakespeare scholars
• Technical exploration:
- linking based on citation (FAIL)
- fuzzy-text matching of quotations (SUCCESS!)
10. Ok, honestly? This
persona was from a
different project but it
gives an idea what kind
of info we seek at this
early stage.
11. 3. DESIGN JAM • Informed by user research
• Diverse participants
• Brainstorm as many approaches
as possible
• (8 sketches in 8 minutes) x 2
• Not constrained by feasibility
Case study: Understanding Shakespeare
• Design jam held at Folger
Shakespeare Library on Day 1 of a
week-long “flash build”
12. This agenda was from
yet another project, but
shows the kind of
“serious fun” that leads
to a good design jam.
13. 4. SELECT AN
APPROACH
• Create paper, low-fi or hi-fi
prototypes of product concepts
• Test with target users to find
most compelling concepts
Case study: Understanding Shakespeare
• 3 user-tests conducted on Days 1 & 2 of flash-build
14. A paper prototype for
Understanding
Shakespeare.
Create enough screens
to test the “big
concept.”
15. A low-fi prototype for
Understanding
Shakespeare.
Used to test multiple
approaches to the same
idea.
16. 5. REFINE
APPROACH
• Refine approach with ongoing
user testing
• Bring in live data, working
infrastructure
• The prototype is created
primarily as a learning tool
Case study: Understanding Shakespeare
• 2 user-tests conducted each day on Days 3 and 4 of flash-build
17. 6. RELEASE,
MEASURE
• Release prototype
• Measure impact
• Document and share
Case study: Understanding Shakespeare
• End of flash-build: working, designed prototype with Macbeth
• 1 month later: released ”MVP” – 6 plays
• 12 months later: released all Shakespeare’s plays; released API
• 18 months later: tested approach on a different text
(Understanding the U.S. Constitution app)
• Currently: exploring expansion to an entire Classics Library
19. WHAT WE LEARN, WHEN
User Input!
Who are they?
What can we
do that will
help them?
How should we
implement it?
How’d we do?
1. Create the sandbox
2. Research
3. Design jam
4. Select an approach
5. Refine approach
6. Release & measure
20. THANK YOU
Alex Humphreys
Director, JSTOR Labs
ITHAKA
http://labs.jstor.org
@abhumphreys
alex.humphreys@ithaka.org
Further Reading
• The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
• Business Model Generation &
Value Proposition Design,
Osterwalder et al.
• Marty Cagan’s Blog:
svpg.com/articles
• Running Lean & Scaling Lean,
Ash Maurya
• Sprint, Knapp, Zeratsky, &
Kowitz