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==breakout: UX in organizational culture==
 
  
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''Blame @erinrwhite for notes.''
 
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Coral facilitates. Her question for the group is, how can we overcome the focus on library experience and focus instead on user experience?
 
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=== what's your problem?===
 
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Introductions. Common problems:
 
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* "Just make a web page!"
 
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* "I can figure this weird arcane and overly complicated thing out. Why can't anyone else?"
 
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* Convincing stakeholders that design isn't print design, doesn't need to be the same for everyone and isn't static.
 
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* Redesign by committee, have mercy!
 
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* Getting ready for a redesign
 
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* Publishing/learning about UX research. Who's going through IRB, who's publishing this stuff?
 
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* Devaluation of UX work in library, funding or mandate
 
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* UX not being built into organizational policies etc.
 
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* How can we scale up UX above and beyond one-project research? Expanding to include more projects beyond the website?
 
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* How can we convince our organizations to not recreate the org chart with the website?
 
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* Trying to create a UX position that is beyond web librarian
 
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* Not just testing sites with librarians (!)
 
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* What about user experience for back-of-house software?
 
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* I'm a web team of one. Help?
 
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* "Put the MARC view back in the catalog!"
 
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* Do we really need to default to advanced search? Battling the exceptions vs the average user?
 
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* Taking a guerrilla approach to UX research
 
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* Not a lot of staff in digital area
 
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* Moving from a culture of complaint to a culture of...fixing
 
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A couple folks here working in organizations that have UX and assessment built into the culture. Thanks in advance for your knowledge, y'all!
 
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=== themes===
 
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We broke into sub-groups:
 
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* Making time
 
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* Changing culture
 
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* Beyond the website
 

Revision as of 19:34, 25 March 2014