{"id":34,"date":"2016-04-28T20:23:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:23:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2016-06-06T01:50:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-06T01:50:10","slug":"week-3-user-experience-the-web-digital-tools","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/syllabus\/week-3-user-experience-the-web-digital-tools\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 3 &#8211; User Experience, the Web, and Digital Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Blog Post &#8211; Due Friday, June\u00a010<\/h2>\n<p>Write a brief review for a digital tool, using the <a href=\"http:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/resources\/criteria-for-digital-tool-evaluation\/\">Criteria for Digital Tool Evaluation<\/a> as a guide. If appropriate, include screenshots to illustrate your points. Think about why someone would want to use a digital tool, and when it would be appropriate to use. Also, discuss how difficult it would be to learn\/use it in a project. You can use a tool that we\u2019ve already covered, or a new one you select. This blog post should help you prepare for\u00a0the <strong>Present a Digital Tool<\/strong>\u00a0presentation\u00a0on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>This week is pretty busy. You may want to do some reading early to stay ahead.<\/p>\n<h2>Monday, June 6<\/h2>\n<h3>8:30am-9am: Check-In (Library 014)<\/h3>\n<h3>9am-Noon: User Experience and Writing for the Web (Library 014, Public Session)<\/h3>\n<p>Steve Krug, web usability expert, writes:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">People often ask me: \u201cWhat\u2019s the most important thing I should do if I want to make sure my site or app is easy to use?\u201d The answer is simple: It\u2019s not \u201cNothing important should ever be more than two clicks away\u201d or \u201cSpeak the user\u2019s language\u201d or \u201cBe consistent.\u201d It\u2019s\u00a0 \u2026 \u201cDon\u2019t make me think!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, in order for your user to not think, you have to think a lot about user experience. Today, we\u2019ll talk about the importance of design and writing in your digital projects.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facilitators\n<ul>\n<li>R.C. Miessler<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Readings and Assignments\n<ul>\n<li>Krug, Steve. <a href=\"http:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Street-signs-and-Breadcrumbs.pdf\">\u201cStreet Signs and Breadcrumbs.\u201d<\/a> In <em>Don\u2019t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability<\/em>, 54-83. San Francisco: New Riders, 2014. (Password protected)<\/li>\n<li>The Oatmeal. <a href=\"http:\/\/theoatmeal.com\/comics\/design_hell\">\u201cHow a Website Design Goes Straight to Hell.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Usability.gov. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usability.gov\/how-to-and-tools\/methods\/writing-for-the-web.html\">\u201cWriting for the Web.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Find a digital project and be prepared to talk about its design, navigation, and how you interacted with it.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Program Learning Goals Supported\n<ul>\n<li>Participate in digital scholarship activities as a part of a collaborative cohort to support digital scholarship initiatives at Gettysburg College and beyond<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Activities\n<ul>\n<li>Look at the basic elements of user experience on the web<\/li>\n<li>Review examples of\u00a0digital scholarship projects from a user experience perspective<\/li>\n<li>Discuss best practices for web writing<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Noon-1pm: Lunch (On Your Own)<\/h3>\n<h3>1pm-4pm: \u00a0Wireframing Lab (Library 014, Public Session)<\/h3>\n<p>A wireframe is a mock-up of a website, a way to sketch out the design and hierarchy of a website before getting into the technical details of creating pages; it\u2019s an important step in determining how you want your users to navigate your digital project. Today, we\u2019ll create some wireframes using digital and analog tools.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facilitators\n<ul>\n<li>Chuck Kann, R.C. Miessler<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Readings and Assignments\n<ul>\n<li>Saidy, Nicole. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.codementor.io\/design\/tutorial\/getting-started-with-wireframes\">&#8220;Web Design Tutorial: Getting Started with Wireframes.&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Program Learning Goals Supported\n<ul>\n<li>Produce documentation and a realistic project timeline to manage, record and track project development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Activities\n<ul>\n<li>Demonstration of <a href=\"http:\/\/pencil.evolus.vn\/\">Pencil<\/a> wireframing tool<\/li>\n<li>Wireframing lab using analog tools (paper, post-its, markers)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4pm-5pm: Individual Consulting Time<\/h3>\n<h2>Tuesday, June 7<\/h2>\n<h3>8:30am-5pm: Research\/Project Work (on your own)<\/h3>\n<h2>Wednesday, June 8<\/h2>\n<h3>8:30am-9am: Check-In (Library 014)<\/h3>\n<h3>9am-Noon: Finding the Right Digital Tools (Library 014, Public Session)<\/h3>\n<p>Finding the right digital tools for your projects isn\u2019t easy; there are thousands of choices at all different levels of technical expertise. Today, we will review ways to find digital tools appropriate to your projects and how to evaluate them.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facilitators\n<ul>\n<li>R.C. Miessler<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Readings and Assignments\n<ul>\n<li>Review the <a href=\"http:\/\/dirtdirectory.org\/\">DiRT Directory<\/a> and pick out 1 or 2 tools that may be usable in your project<\/li>\n<li>Appleford, Simon, and Jennifer Guiliano. <a href=\"http:\/\/devdh.org\/lectures\/design\/tech\/\">&#8220;Tech, Tech, and More Tech&#8221;<\/a> (slides and recording)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Program Learning Goals Supported\n<ul>\n<li>Identify a range of possible digital scholarship tools to integrate into a public-facing digital scholarship project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Activities\n<ul>\n<li>Reading discussion<\/li>\n<li>Review the DiRT Directory<\/li>\n<li>Brief presentations of tools chosen by fellows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Noon-1pm: DSSF Lunch (Specialty Dining)<\/h3>\n<h3>1pm-4pm: Reverse Engineer a Digital Project (Library 014)<\/h3>\n<p>Digital projects can often be \u201cblack boxes,\u201d that is, we have no idea what makes them tick, because there\u2019s no documentation, shared code, or breakdown of what was done to create it. Today, we will try to pry the box open a little bit and see if we can see what different digital scholars used to create their sites.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facilitators\n<ul>\n<li>R.C. Miessler<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Readings and Assignments\n<ul>\n<li>Glass, Grant. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hastac.org\/blogs\/grantglass\/2015\/10\/14\/black-box\">\u201cThe Black Box.\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Posner, Miriam. <a href=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/how-did-they-make-that\/\">\u201cHow Did They Make That?\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Posner, Miriam. <a href=\"http:\/\/miriamposner.com\/blog\/how-did-they-make-that-the-video\/\">\u201cHow Did They Make That? The Video!\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Program Learning Goals Supported\n<ul>\n<li>Identify a range of possible digital scholarship tools to integrate into a public-facing digital scholarship project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Activities\n<ul>\n<li>Reading discussion<\/li>\n<li>Reverse engineer a digital project lab<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>4pm-5pm: Individual Consulting Time<\/h3>\n<h2>Thursday, June 9<\/h2>\n<h3>8:30am-5pm: Research\/Project Work (on your own)<\/h3>\n<h2>Friday, June 10<\/h2>\n<h3>8:30am-9am: Check-In<\/h3>\n<h3>9am-Noon: Present\u00a0a\u00a0Digital Tool (Library 014)<\/h3>\n<p>Today, we have you present a digital tool! You don\u2019t need to be an expert, but you should explain what it is, what it does, how we would get started using it, and situations where it would be used, as well as provide examples of the tool in action. Use the <a href=\"http:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/resources\/criteria-for-digital-tool-evaluation\/\">Criteria for Digital Tool Evaluation<\/a> to help guide your discussion. Expect to spend about 15 minutes talking about the tool, with 5 minutes for questions.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Facilitators\n<ul>\n<li>Digital Scholarship Summer Fellows<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Readings and Assignments\n<ul>\n<li>Prepare to talk about a\u00a0digital tool<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Program Learning Goals Supported\n<ul>\n<li>R\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adeflect upon the process of creating and managing a digital scholarship project to record and evaluate individual progress and identify challenges and best practices for other digital scholars<\/li>\n<li>Produce documentation and a realistic project timeline to manage, record and track project development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Activities\n<ul>\n<li>Fellows will present a digital tool that they have selected, discussing its strengths, weaknesses, and possible uses<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Noon-1pm: Lunch (on your own)<\/h3>\n<h3>1pm-5pm: Research\/Project Work (on your own)<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blog Post &#8211; Due Friday, June\u00a010 Write a brief review for a digital tool, using the Criteria for Digital Tool Evaluation as a guide. If appropriate, include screenshots to illustrate your points. Think about why someone would want to use a digital tool, and when it would be appropriate to use. Also, discuss how difficult &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/syllabus\/week-3-user-experience-the-web-digital-tools\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Week 3 &#8211; User Experience, the Web, and Digital Tools&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/379"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dssf.musselmanlibrary.org\/2016\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}