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So I just showed Chad (my husband) the interface and did some impromptu testing that I wanted to share. I had the item page open and asked him to poke around and tell me what he thinks, without giving him specific prompts or actions. The first thing he did was click on the image and opened the viewer. The default I had set was all three clicked. He liked the layout and immediately clicked ahead to page through the letter, and he liked how all three windows updated as he did it. The next thing he did was try to make the image larger within the image window. It was only a 1/3 of the screen so he had some trouble doing it. He never realized that he could minimize the windows. When I showed him that he said that was unexpected – he thought those were just headings for the text below it, which made sense to him. He wondered if we might want to have the boxes on the righthand side, under the thumbnails, but he wasn’t sure. I asked if it would have been more obvious if just the image was there when he opened it, or the image and one of the text boxes. He wasn’t sure and said “maybe”. In terms of tech savviness, he also works in digital libraries, so is more of an expert user than an amateur.
Features
Fellow during orientation
asked whether users were able to mark and save records to a list
Anonymous emailer re: survey
Hi,
I found you looking for something I am wondering what you are as an entity.
I word on cookies.
The only kind I want are chocolate and made with butter. I do not wish to be tracked and have the electronic version of being tagged so unscrupulous scum like double click follow me for eternity.
Is ther a simple way to browse on the site, an alphabetical listing would be helpful.
If I notice odd hangs or inability to get something to load I will pass that on.