User Interface Group
Criteria for prioritizing our work
This list is used for prioritizing the normal, everyday requests and ideas that come our way. It's not for the big projects (i.e. Project SimpLR) that cost extra money and staff time, but just for the everyday work.
User impact
- solves a problem
- affects a large number of users
- things that show we're on the cutting edge
- things that are fun (for us and for users)
- things that have been requested by multiple users (not just one)
Sub-categories of user impact:
- improves known item searching
- improves topical discovery
- improves connections with other systems and tools
- help with evaluating best sources of info
- helps users save time
- helps with personal information management (saving, sorting, sharing, citing what they found)Staffing
- doesn't take a huge amount of staff time to implement
- things that are easy and we know how to do or could easily find out how to do
- things that we could delegate to students or interns or temp help
- things that don't cost extra money to implement
- improves staff workflow and saves time
- solves more than one problem with one solution