Indiana University Digital Library Program
Interface Design & Usability Services
About | Design & Usability Services | Standards, Guidelines & Templates
Example Documentation | References
About Usability & Interface Design
Usability & Interface Design Services has been established to ensure digital collections and resources are designed to enhance user interaction to promote teaching, learning and research. To attain this, we are committed to collaborating with an array of people: users of the resources, information intermediaries, programmers, and metadata and subject specialists to determine user needs and requirements. Through iterative usability assessment and design, we are able to provide digital library resources that meet our users' needs and goals.
In addition to providing usability assessment and design expertise for specific digital library projects, the IU Digital Library Program also engages in general research pertaining to digital library usage: pedagogic use of digital resources, integrating metadata structures into discovery functionality and so on.
If you are embarking on a digital library project, we are happy to consult on matters pertaining to usability and design.
Contact:
Michelle Dalmau, Digital Projects & Usability Librarian
mdalmau@indiana.edu, 812.855.1261
Services
Whether we are consulting or partnering on digital library projects these are some of the services we offer in this area:
- User assessment and evaluation planning and administration
- Human subjects consultation
- Quantitative and qualitative data analysis
- Design recommendations, functionality reports
- Wireframing, prototyping and end-design
Example Documentation
Sample usability evaluation plans and reports produced for digital library projects can be found here:
Standards, Guidelines & Templates
- XHTML 1.0 Extensible Hypertext Markup Language
- X/HTML Validator
- CSS Cascading Style Sheets
- CSS Validator
- Web Accessibility Guidelines
- Web Style Guide, 2nd ed.
- Techniques for Web Content Accessibility
- Indiana University Visual Identity Guidelines for New Media
- Indiana University Libraries - Bloomington, Usability Working Group
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