(via Gwen Gregory, IACRL President)
IOLUG Spring 2016 Conference — DIY UX: Innovate. Create. Design.
Friday, May 20th, 2016
Indiana Wesleyan University North Campus
3777 Priority Way, Indianapolis, IN 46240
Keynote Speaker: Suzanne Chapman, User Experience Librarian at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The IOLUG Program Committee is inviting proposals around the theme of improving user experience. What strategies and/or tools do you use to make library resources, webpages, spaces, marketing materials, etc. more user-friendly? What has proven successful for your organization? What problems surrounding user experience have you encountered, and what solutions have you devised? What best practices or recent research can you share about user experience?
We encourage presentations that are practical, hands-on, and include take-awayable tools, techniques, and/or strategies that librarians can implement to improve their resources and services for students, patrons, faculty, etc.
Analytics (perhaps on a shoestring budget?)
COUNTER/SUSHI improvements
Branding and marketing
Using data to make decisions in online and/or physical libraries
Human-centered design
Improving digital services and resources
Exploring/seeking feedback on user experiences
Attitudinal and behavioral user research — ethnographic studies
Observation and storytelling — participant observation, usability
Small scale UX projects
Visual ethnography — photo studies, cognitive mapping, etc.
Needs assessments
Please specify in your proposal whether users will be expected to bring their own devices, or if you will need the use of a computer lab.
Deadline is Friday, March 11th!!
Get ideas from previous conferences at the IOLUG site.