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The presentation will not only cover the technical aspects, but also the implementation and usability findings.
== De-sucking the Library User Experience ==
* Jeremy Prevost, Northwestern University, j-prevost {AT} northwestern [DOT] edu
Have you ever thought that library vendors purposely create the worst possible user experience they can imagine because they just hate users? Have you ever thought that your own library website feels like it was created by committee rather than for users because, well, it was? I’ll talk about how we used vendor APIs to our ILS and Discovery tool to create an experience for our users that sucks at least a little bit less.
The talk will provide specific examples of how ridiculous vendor supplied solutions are from a user perspective along with our specific streamlined solutions to the same problems. Code examples will be minimal as the focus will be on improving user experience rather than any one code solution of doing that.
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