Podcasts about libux

This week Amanda L. Goodman (@godaisies) gives you a peek into the work  of the LITA Persona Task Force, who are charged with defining and developing personas that are to be used in growing membership in the Library and Information Technology Association. We — LibUX — are producing our first ever free webinar this Thursday, February 16th, at 1 pm with Metric alum Tim Broadwater, a UI designer and certified UX developer that has worked for Fortune 500 companies, grant-based education initiatives, and higher-ed. It’s called UX Quackery, which will focus on the prevailing dishonest practices that exist in the field of UX, and what we can do to weed-out the quacls. Toootally free and I think it will be really special. Check it out at libux.co/events. Get full access to Metric by Michael Schofield at metric.substack.com/subscribe

This episode of Metric is very much a companion to last week’s post on consciously infusing the ethics of the organization into design decisions. There is an opportunity for institutions that are positioned — either actively or by reputation — as intellectual and moral community cores (libraries) to exert greater if not just more obvious influence on the filters through which patrons access content.Critical Librarianship in the Design of Libraries It’s been an upward battle for accessibility wresting a seat at the design table even though it’s core to the user experience. It’s now time to pull-up a chair for ethical considerations. It’s been almost three years since I amended the UX Honeycomb with “ethical”. Notes The ethics of good design: a principle for the connected age by Aaron Weyenberg Good design is ethical. The product places the user’s interest at the center of its purpose. Any effort to influence the user’s agency or behavior is in the spirit of their own positive wellbeing, and the wellbeing of those around them.Aaron Weyenberg Listen and subscribe If you like, you can download the MP3 or subscribe to LibUX on Stitcher, iTunes, YouTube, Soundcloud, Google Music, or just plug our feed straight into your podcatcher of choice. Get full access to Metric by Michael Schofield at metric.substack.com/subscribe

Can we talk about the voting process as a user experience problem? Our — the LibUX — approach to the user experience is that UX is a metric, a plottable, predictable, and improvable measurement of the end-user’s cumulative experience of your service. And we care because we have seen that actively investing in a good user experience has positive returns on the measurements your business or organization cares about. Is it foot traffic, is it database usage, is it income. So, if we can apply this to civic participation, where we want people to vote — that’s the number we care about, voter turnout — can we then approach the challenge of improving this number by improving the user experience of voting? https://stratechery.com/2016/the-voters-decide/ https://medium.com/launchpad-lab/the-ux-of-voting-is-miserable-b71f334960d6#.lsmqshdx8   This episode is brought to you by Audible.com Snag a free audiobook -- these things can be like 30 bucks! -- and a free, no-strings 30-day trial of Audible. It's an awesome service and it supports the show. We would really, really apreciate it. https://audibletrial.com/metric  Get full access to Metric by Michael Schofield at metric.substack.com/subscribe

Back in August 2016, Steve spoke with Amanda L. Goodman and Michael Schofield on their podcast, LibUX, about the design, process, and grind of podcasting, metrics, quality, and monetization. SHOW NOTES: LibUX 041

What's up! Let's make some enemies and defend the use of carousels on behalf of actually good user experiences - maybe. Thank you for your kind reviews! Your brief reviews wherever you listen to LibUX make it easier to discover it. Get full access to Metric by Michael Schofield at metric.substack.com/subscribe

Hey, listeners! This week's episode is an oldie but a goodie. I used all my available storage on libsyn for August being so on point with this weekly show, that I can't upload anything new until the first full week of September. So, from the archives, I present to you one of my favorite topics: design triggers. A design trigger is a pattern meant to appeal to behavior and cognitive biases observed in users. Big data and the user experience boom has provided a lot of information about how people actually use the web, which designs work, and–although creepy–how it is possible to cobble together an effective site designed to social engineer users. Please rate, review, and share to help other designers find LibUX.  Get full access to Metric by Michael Schofield at metric.substack.com/subscribe

Circulating Ideas' host Steve Thomas generously allowed us to share the audio! We were stoked to guest-host.  Guest hosts Michael Schofield and Amanda L. Goodman from LibUX chat with Cecily Walker from Vancouver Public Library.  Cecily Walker is a librarian at Vancouver Public Library, where she focuses on user experience, community digital projects, digital collections, and the intersection of social justice, technology, and public librarianship. It was her frustration with the way that software was designed to meet the needs of highly technical users rather than the general public that led her to user experience, but it was her love of information, intellectual freedom, and commitment to social justice that led her back to librarianship. Cecily can be found on Twitter (@skeskali) where she frequently holds court on any number of subjects, but especially lipstick. Michael Schofield and Amanda L. Goodman host the LibUX podcast. SHOW NOTES This Vancouver“UX, consideration, and a CMMI-based model” [Coral Sheldon-Hess] “Mindspring’s 14 Deadly Sins”Cecily on Twitter Get full access to Metric by Michael Schofield at metric.substack.com/subscribe

Fresh from a Summer's hiatus, this week on LibUX we -- Amanda and Michael -- talk shop with Steve Thomas, host of the popular podcast Circulating Ideas, about the process and grind of podcasting, metrics, quality, and monetization. Michael decided it would be a great time to try a brand new system of recording, which mucks with the audio, and rounds-out the last three minutes of the podcast with hellfire, the dreaded back button, and a very gracious guest. Lord help us. We hope you have fun. Get full access to Metric by Michael Schofield at metric.substack.com/subscribe

Tim is an artist and front-end developer, presently the UX Architect at West Virginia University Libraries and several times certified by the Nielsen Norman Group. He’s written two articles for LibUX ( “Value vs. Feasibility” / “Why am I doing this to our users?” ), and he’s been super amazing to work with. I asked to pick his brain about his experience in NN/g’s certification programs and the burgeoning UX degree field – and I am left feeling pretty good about the state of library user experience design. If you like, you can download the MP3 or subscribe to LibUX on Stitcher,iTunes, Google Play Music, or just plug our feed straight into your podcatcher of choice. Help us out and say something nice. Your sharing and positive reviews are the best marketing we could ask for. Here are the pulls 3:50 – UX Certifications and the burgeoning UX degree field 9:22 – Are we at peak UX? I know a handful of professionals who are great web developers and great designers …, and they refer to themselves as UX designers or UX architects, however they have never once conducted any type of usability study or intercept or any type of evaluation that involves their users – they don’t meet their users, ever. I think the term gets broadly applied to where it becomes a buzzword.Tim Broadwater 15:55 – Pitching user research to stakeholders 16:35 – Tim’s case study We can shoot from the hip over and over and over again and sometimes we get an “okay” success, but … most of the time we get an absolute failure. How do we go forward? We have to make decisions based on user data. … Our target audience is constantly changing so we have to always be able to take the pulse.Tim Broadwater 20:21 – We — Michael and Tim — love the hamburger menu. Unashamedly. And it’s going to be around for years. I can’t deny [the hamburger menu] affords a certain amount of convenience in terms of design because of the … complexity of maintaining a front-end framework that must be as malleable [as a libraries’ must be] to adapt to so many different kinds of applications and so many different kinds of users.Michael Schofield 28:50 – This has become Navigation UX Talk with Tim and Mike. 34:03 – Left navigation? Ugh! As if! I think left hanf navigation is kind of a lazy way to deal with your secondary tier navigation. There are so many different options now that are out there. I think what we’re seeing now is that with long scrolling pages and different kind of navigation items or navigations that are sticky, staying on the page, … there are different ways to get to the same information and it’s more important to evaluate what works best for you or your users, as oppose to playing it safe or going with your peers.Tim Broadwater Why do all higher-education websites look the same? Because we’re all looking at each other’s for peer research! No one is looking at apartments.com, which has this great search box functionality and I would argue that’s a perfect example for a library website … – and it uses the hamburger icon as well.Tim Broadwater   Get full access to Metric by Michael Schofield at metric.substack.com/subscribe

 The third episode in our new question-and-answer bonus series raises more questions than anything. Meg Ecclestone stumbles into a blooper reel. We hope you enjoy.0:32 – “I worry about the state of virtual reality for libraries.”0:45 – “I always tell people that in librarianship we need to dream smaller, but you have dreamed very small, Michael. Very small indeed.”2:16 – “How goth is the state of library user experience?”3:35 – Meg and Michael go to camp.This is so Hot Topic.MEG ECCLESTONE5:05 – We are clearly off topic.7:48 – “On Friday, April 16th, Deathrock came to town.”You can subscribe to LibUX on Stitcher, iTunes, or plug our feed right into your podcatcher of choice. Help us out and say something nice. You can find every podcast on www.libux.co. Get full access to Metric by Michael Schofield at metric.substack.com/subscribe