{"id":301,"date":"2019-04-17T15:03:48","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T13:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/?p=301"},"modified":"2019-04-17T15:03:48","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T13:03:48","slug":"taking-the-user-experience-ux-forward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/2019\/04\/17\/taking-the-user-experience-ux-forward\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking the user experience (UX) forward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-310 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/Symposium-audience-IMG_0649-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"376\" height=\"282\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/Symposium-audience-IMG_0649-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/Symposium-audience-IMG_0649-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/Symposium-audience-IMG_0649-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In November 2018, the Library and Information Service hosted its 15<sup>th<\/sup> Stellenbosch University Library Symposium, themed \u201cSmarter libraries: User experience (UX) in action\u201d. A focus on user experience ensures that products and services are designed to meet users\u2019 needs. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-309 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/Potter-Symposium-Img_0591-crpd-300x237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"214\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/Potter-Symposium-Img_0591-crpd-300x237.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/Potter-Symposium-Img_0591-crpd-768x607.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/Potter-Symposium-Img_0591-crpd-1024x809.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 214px) 100vw, 214px\" \/>In his keynote address, Mr Ned Potter shared information and experiences of UX research and implementation at the University of York Library.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-304 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/potter-snapshot-of-video-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"172\" height=\"96\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/potter-snapshot-of-video-300x167.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/potter-snapshot-of-video-768x428.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/potter-snapshot-of-video-1024x571.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/potter-snapshot-of-video.jpg 1912w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 172px) 100vw, 172px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Library and Information Service of Stellenbosch University is now taking UX forward. A UX Research Task Team has been formed.\u00a0 The Team has worked on a proposal on how UX research will be conducted in the Library over the next two years. Concise descriptions of the many available UX methods have been compiled, contributing towards a \u201ctool box\u201d for the Library. Principles which Potter shared, which the Team is keeping in mind, are that time is important for UX (for training, doing, analysing and implementing), that one should go beyond the walls of the Library and learn what others are doing UX-wise, and that one gets more impact from quality than one does from quantity. <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-305\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/UX-methods-Potter-300x168.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/UX-methods-Potter-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/UX-methods-Potter-768x429.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/UX-methods-Potter-1024x572.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/files\/2019\/03\/UX-methods-Potter.png 1546w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>An example of a UX method is conducting focus group discussions. In 2019, the Library and Information Service will be conducting focus group interviews to investigate our clients\u2019 attitudes and perceptions of our research support services. Other UX methods are being investigated too.<\/p>\n<p>The Team is excited to get <em>all <\/em>Library staff learning, thinking, doing and implementing UX research.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In November 2018, the Library and Information Service hosted its 15th Stellenbosch University Library Symposium, themed \u201cSmarter libraries: User experience (UX) in action\u201d. A focus on user experience ensures that products and services are designed to meet users\u2019 needs. In his keynote address, Mr Ned Potter shared information and experiences of UX research and implementation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/2019\/04\/17\/taking-the-user-experience-ux-forward\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Taking the user experience (UX) forward&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10039,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sun.ac.za\/bibnuus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}