Category Archives: usability

Dumb-down at Indexing or Nested Data in the Solr Search Engine

Posted on August 16, 2022 by Toke Eskildsen

Sigfrid Lundberg, Ph. D., Software Developer Royal Danish Library Copenhagen Denmark twitter — github — web site Are passions, then, the Pagans of the soul? Reason alone baptized? alone ordain’d To touch things sacred? (Edward Young — 1683-1765) Introduction The … Continue reading →

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Brilliant, guys!

Posted on September 20, 2009 by Toke Eskildsen

Our fine usability guys hard at work.

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Usability testing Summa Search

Posted on May 5, 2009 by michaelpoltorak

We recently did a usability test of the library’s Summa based search engine – known as Search. To ensure objectivity the test was headed by Julia from UNI-C and was done as a think-out-loud test with eight users from the … Continue reading →

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Pink Navigation

Posted on November 27, 2008 by michaelpoltorak

Haven’t see the navigation by colour concept before. It works well, however at gizmine.com – apparently “the world’s largest Japanese gadgets and lifestyle design shop”. Given the amount of pink stuff on the site, I expect their customers to be … Continue reading →

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The tea bag switcher

Posted on September 30, 2008 by michaelpoltorak

Along with our new hot drinks machine from Wittenborg came a box of mixed tea bags. The tea bags are nicely arranged in flavour compartments, which – in my view – is a really user friendly feature. However, once in … Continue reading →

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Primo usability on video

Posted on September 26, 2008 by michaelpoltorak

The Royal Library in Cph. recently did a number of usability tests of their new search engine called Primo. The usability tests were recorded on video and can be seen over at DEFF’s wiki. I haven’t seen them all yet, … Continue reading →

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