In Spring 2015, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the website for The Grey Literature Report (http://www.greylit.org/), a web resource for public health researchers to fill in the gaps of their peer-reviewed literature research with relevant grey literature. Student Team: Allie…
Assessing the User Experience (UX) of Online Museum Collections: Perspectives from Design and Museum Professionals from craigmmacdonald Studies show that online museum collections are among the least popular features of a museum website, which many museums attribute to a lack of interest. While it’s certainly possible that a large segment of the population is simply…
In Spring 2015, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a diary usability study of a responsive prototype website for the Ursula C. Schwerin Library at New York City College of Technology (http://library.citytech.cuny.edu/). Student Team: Mike Benowitz, Alex Provo, Julie Schaeffer Download Full Report: City Tech…
In Spring 2015, two teams from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a diary usability study of the beta version of a social movement tracking platform created by a local start-up. Student Team #1: Lisa Barrier, Maeve Countey, Kreya Jackson, Rikki Pennisi Student Team #2: Erin Barsan, Greg Chaput, Scarlett Taylor,…
In Spring 2015, two students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted separate cognitive walkthrough usability evaluations of a beta version of the Columbia Digital Library Collections interface (https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/). Student #1: Mike Benowitz Student #2: Andrew Ward Download Full Reports: Benowitz – Columbia DLC Cognitive Walkthrough Report (PDF) Ward – Columbia DLC Cognitive Walkthrough Report (PDF)
In Fall 2014, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the website for a community savings bank in Brooklyn. Student Team: Elizabeth Karg, Diana Sapanaro, Storey Sitwala Download Full Report: Community Savings Bank Usability Report (PDF)
In Fall 2014, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the New York Philharmonic Digital Archives (http://archives.nyphil.org/). Student Team: Rachel Bronstein, James Lemoine, Seth Persons Download Full Report: New York Philharmonic Digital Archives Usability Report (PDF)
Building a (good) UX Portfolio from craigmmacdonald A short presentation to the Pratt UX/IA student group on what makes a good UX portfolio and how to make one. Presented at the October 2014 meeting of the Pratt UX/IA student group. Citation: MacDonald, C. M., (2014). “Building a (Good) UX Portfolio.” Short talk at the Pratt…
What Does it Mean for a System to be Useful? An Exploratory Study of Usefulness from craigmmacdonald HCI has always focused on designing useful and usable interactive systems, but usability has dominated the field while research on usefulness has been largely absent. With user experience (UX) emerging as a dominant paradigm, it is necessary to…
In Spring 2014, a team of students from my Usability Theory & Practice course (LIS 644) at Pratt Institute conducted a usability study of the New York Art Resource Consortium (NYARC) website (http://www.nyarc.org/). Student Team: Kate Asmus, Caitlin Harrington, Nik Dragovic, Laura Marte-Piccini Download Full Report: NYARC User Testing Report (PDF)