Usability testing : a practical guide for librarians / Rebecca Blakiston.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why usability testing matters -- Conducting your own usability testing -- Identifying your audience and their tasks -- Selecting a method -- Planning a usability test -- Conducting a usability test -- Analyzing your findings and making improvements -- Ongoing usability testing -- Keeping up the momentum.

In this book you will learn that in-house usability testing on a budget is not only feasible, but it is practical, sustainable, and has the potential to lead to remarkable improvements of the content, design, and layout of your website. Usability Testing: A Practical Guide for Librarians will teach you how to: .Make the case for usability testing .Define your audience and their goals .Select a usability testing method appropriate for your particular context .Plan for an in-house usability test .Conduct an effective in-house usability test .Analyze usability test results and make decisions based on those results .Create and implement a plan for ongoing, systematic usability testing Step-by-step instructions, along with a myriad of examples, allow you to use this book as a practical guide, and adapt the techniques for your own context. Techniques are appropriate for libraries of all types, including academic, public, and special libraries."