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Minutes 12/04/2001

Present: Duke (minutes), Hennig, Skuce

1. Usability testing for Archives site

Stephen met with Nora and Lois from the Archives to discuss the upcoming usability tests of the new Archives site. They provided Stephen with a rough list of questions - Stephen and Darcy will refine and repackage the questions into a draft of the test. There will be four general questions for all users and six more specific questions geared towards each specific user group. The Archives search engine will not be tested in this first round of tests - the users will be prompted to browse for information only.

2. Guidelines from Jakob Nielsen's book on homepage usability

The group reviewed the guidelines outlined in Jakob Nielsen's book, Homepage Usability, and applied them to the MIT Libraries homepage to see how well our site held up. Generally our site fared quite well, but we did find a number of shortcomings (some already known, others not) which we will work towards correcting.

3. New GIS site

Sarah Williams, the GIS specialist, met with the group to discuss the look and feel and navigation of the new GIS site she is creating. Sarah demoed some approaches to the main navigation bar she had created and the group helped resolve some navigation issues. Sarah will continue to work on the site and consult with WAG members.

 

Next meeting:

Wednesday, December 19, 2-3:30 PM; 10-500 (Nicole's office)

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