This presentation was provided by Andrew Nagy of EBSCO Information Services during the NISO event "The Impact of the Interface: Traditional and Non Traditional Content," held on November 20, 2019.
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Our Overall Approach
Focus on building products that solve problems facing our
customers and that users want to engage with
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EBSCO UX Transformation & Opportunity
Mission:
Design
transformative
user experiences
Leveraging technology advancement to transform available
user insights to power human centered design thinking
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Understand our users Optimize our experience1 4
Understand user needs, and
identify gaps & opportunities
o Why do users use our products?
o What are their workflows like?
o What challenges or frustrations do
users encounter today?
Measure & benchmark the user
experience for continual
improvement & optimization
o How’s our product doing?
o What could be better?
o How does our product stack up against
others?
Personas,
Journey Maps,
Needs Analysis
Production Site
AssetsGoals
Discovery, exploratory Iterative VOC & benchmarking,
metrics-based, compare progress
Type
UX Design Thinking Approach
Validate the experience3
Test & evaluate the user
experience to drive iterative
improvement & refinement
o How well can users use the product?
o What improvements can be made?
o Did the addition of new features hurt,
help or no impact?
Development Site,
Prototypes
Iterative usability & benchmarking,
metrics-based, compare progress
inform
Explore concepts
Define & assess potential
solutions or approaches
o Are we headed in the right direction?
o Which direction or approach is better?
o How can we improve the experience?
Wireframes,
Prototypes
Evaluative, insightful
improve evaluate optimize
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Accessibility
”We’re thrilled that [EBSCO is] committed to
providing this equal access to everyone”
“If there are 80 buttons on the webpage…
trying to find the Submit button…it’s
gonna take a while…”
Bruce Howell
Accessibility Services Manager
The Carroll Center for the Blind
Ashley Colburn
Vision Rehab Therapist
The Carroll Center for the Blind
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Improving Search through a Knowledge Graph
A knowledge graph which will connect content provider’s
controlled vocabularies along with authorities and natural
language processing to ensure users find all relevant results
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EBSCO Mobile App
Allow users to conduct steps of their
non-linear research process wherever
they are, allowing progress to be
made anytime, anywhere, and with
seamless integration between their
research devices
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Where Are You From
Allowing users to access
their EBSCO entitlements
outside of the library website
while still generating usage
for the library
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Refreshed EBSCO User Experience
• Reviewing past enhancement requests
• Focus on mobile experience
• Increasing personalization options
• Testing and Iterating
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Users are offered paths to
explore or refine their search
related to the search term they
have entered.
Contextual
actions promote
ease of use and
efficiency
Been at EBSCO 3 years and previously I worked for Serials Solutions and then prior to that I worked at the library at Villanova University where we founded the open source VuFind project
Through out my career, I’ve talked to many customers and users about various products
Excited to show you a high-level overview of the projects we’ve been working on at EBSCO
Pragmatic approach means renewed focus on getting customer feedback before and during product building
Focus on building products customers want
Getting our product and development teams working directly with customers to get feedback
Many product people in the audience today
Continually getting feedback during the build process
Conducting user research
Amplitude
EIS is working over the last year to introduce it’s own proprietary EBSCO Design Thinking Model. Design thinking is about believing we can make a difference, and having an intentional process in order to get to new, relevant solutions that create positive impact.
Design Thinking gives you faith in your creative abilities and a process for transforming difficult challenges into opportunities for design.
THIS SLIDE ISN’T OUR MODEL BUT DEMONSTRATES OUR USER CENTRIC APPROACH, USING VARIOUS INPUTS TO SYNTHESISE STRATEGY AND DESIGN. RESEARCH AND TESTING ARE EARLY, AND OFTEN IN THE PROCESS TO SUPPORT AN EVIDENCE BASED APPORACH TO REFINGIN OUR EXECUTION AND DE-RISKING OUR GTM MVP.
As a product team we’ve identified five key market problems based on data. I’ll be discussing our solutions to these problems today.
As a librarian you need to purchase and train users with various needs
Accessibility is a focus as we evolve and build products
Incorporate accessibility from start of design versus retrofitting existing products to be accessible
Designing with local, accessible and mobile first mindset
Partnership with the Carroll Center for the Blind out of Newton, MA
Local so we can work on site with them and vice versa
Helping to facilitate user testing for visually impaired
Providing support around implementing best practices for accessibility
We believe in giving the user the option to choose which search functionality works best for them
Allows user to build an expanded search and execute in a traditional result list
Find topics they may not have known – helpful when starting research
Included with EDS
Interested in being a beta?
Looking for betas – Feb/March 2020
We know search and content is our bread and butter – always looking for ways to expand and enhance the content
Helping to cater to international customers as well as international students within your schools
Recognizes the user's language up front
Expands existing Enhanced Subject Precision capabilities
Combines the power of AI with our existing, proprietary search engine and algorithms
Available in 280 languages
Allows users to see related topics and ideas
Nodes can expand the search
Search build in left column and can execute in traditional result list
Users can access content regardless of where they start research
Building a mobile app to complement our platform
Extends reach of our platforms and mobility of use
Drives traffic to library resources
Encourages users to affiliate to their library
Personalization and organization options that seamlessly transfer to the desktop experience
Highlight find my library service
Ability to push content
Content saved on App translates to desktop
EDS and eHost
We are working on product and functionality to help bridge the gap between faculty and the library
Single interface where faculty can easily:
Discover and access OER (Open Educational Resources) content
Provide open and affordable textbooks
Find and request access to unrestricted (DRM-free) library e-books from top academic publishers
Building LMS integration to support the ability to access and use EBSCO content from within LMS
Helps faculty easily discovery content within the LMS
Encourage faculty use of library content
No secondary log-in when accessing content from within the LMS
Support deep linking into the content
Well also enable integration into other LTI-supported products
Building and improving products that meet librarian needs and students want to use.
Working on incremental, meaningful enhancements to the EDS experience
Consideration of past enhancement requests
Mobile first
More personalization options for users to customize their experience
Built on architecture that allows EBSCO to design, build and react quickly
EDS will move first, followed by EBSCOhost databases later
Offer users a reason to personalize
Save collections into projects, recommended articles, liked items, create a bibliography
Integration with other services (export, FOLIO, etc) so user can customize
Users do not have to personalize if they don’t want to – can still search and access full text as a guest
Same privacy and GDPR compliance as existing folder
50% of a users first action in eBook viewer is to interact with the TOC – highly used feature
Ability to download by chapter on the detailed record
Improved page range selections