Designing for users
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Using Wikis to Build Library Web Spaces
Joyce Yukawa, MLIS Program, College of St. Catherine
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| About this presentation · Wikis for libraries · Creating wiki spaces · Tools and resources |
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Designing for users
Wiki Gardening 201: Designing wikis for effective use is informed by the same guidelines for the design of new software (see Tools and resources for some recommended resources).
Basic design steps
- Create a wiki task force.
- Identify several specific goals and accompanying user scenarios that make the goals practical and implementable.
- Write specifications: vision/scope, target audience, projected outcomes, time, cost, key players, tools, training.
- Write a concise plan and procedure for implementation.
- Get user feedback: measure, assess, adjust, and do it over again incrementally.
- Although not specifically wiki, an example of this process is the UAA/APU Consortium Library's Library Website Redesign Project Summer 2005.
- More on planning your site
