Earlier
in the month I called upon the ever-awesome network of twitter info
pros to help me create a reading list to introduce someone to UX in
Libraries - the part of User Experience focusing on ethnography and
physical spaces rather than primarily on the online experience.
UX
is a growing area but lots of people are still unfamiliar with it, so
the aim of the list is to take a structured approach to introducing the
topic, taking someone from a fairly straightforward definition right
through to books, blogposts, presentations and journal articles that go
into a lot of detail.
Lots of
people came back with great suggestions and I said I'd make the list
publicly available upon completion, so here it is. When you're looking
for UX literature there's obviously a huge amount on website UX, so it's
nice to have a concentrated list that's just about the library context.
If
you're wondering about tweeting a link to this blogpost it might be more useful to
tweet a link directly to the reading list itself instead if you'd
prefer!
I created this
primarily for the UX Intern about to start work at York for six weeks,
who I'll be managing. I'm very excited about this - it's such a great
opportunity to hit the ground running with some ethnography, and turn
the ideas from the UXLibs conference into results for our own
institution. The intern starts in August - I'll blog about how that all
goes at a later date.
If you
can think of a way to improve this reading list, please let me know with a comment ideally on the original blogpost (this a reblog - the original on ned-potter.com is here).
I've created a copy for our intern which I'll leave alone for the
moment, so this public version can be amdended to and added to as much
as people feel would be useful. I'm particularly keen on additions that
you have specifically read / watched / viewed and found helpful, rather
than 'I've heard this is good' type suggestions which might end up
making the list too long and unwiedly...
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