online course reserves ciera christopher edith koler patricia lin
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Online Course Reserves
Ciera Christopher
Edith Koler
Patricia Lin
Introduction to the System
The course reserves system allows students to: Search for course reserves by course or
professor Find information on books stored in the reserve
room Download copies of online reserves
Problems Identified
Our evaluation of the Online Course Reserves produced the following results: Unnecessary text Links that went to useless searches Circular Links Forced to download only one item at a time Lack of color Spacing made text difficult to read Table borders were large and distracting Ugly
Search Course Reserves
Link to contact
Links to get more information
Clear Search
Clear affordances
Old: Missing Entry
Table columns are
unclear
Not centered
Table borders are ugly
New: Missing Entry
Table is clear
Color attracts user
attention
Old: Professor with Multiple Courses
What’s Num?
New: Professor with Multiple Courses
Table makes sense
Old: View all Reserves
What does the
button do?
Too much information
Circular Links
What’s this referring too?
New: View all Reserves
Columns clearly defined
Clearly defines what table displays
Removed useless buttons
Table is unnecessary
What’s all this junk?
Useless
Link
Centering makes it difficult
to read “View image of:”…What’s that about?
Too much work to
download all
Old: View Online Reserves
Three Pages?!
New: View Online Reserves
User can select all for easy download
Easy to ready article titles
Only two pages!
No extra table and text
Removed useless
links
Old: Permissions
What number?
Glad you gave
me a choice
New: Permissions
Clear where
number is
Evaluation of New System
Conducted same evaluation on 6 users. No confusion by unnecessary text. Users could not click on links that were confusing Users could download multiple files Color attracted users to important information Information was easy to find