1. Online Course Reserves Ciera Christopher Edith Koler Patricia Lin

2. Introduction to the System The course reserves system allows students to: Search for course reserves by course or professor Find information on books stored in the reserve room Download copies of online reserves

3. Problems Identified Our evaluation of the Online Course Reserves produced the following results: Unnecessary text Links that went to useless searches Circular Links Forced to download only one item at a time Lack of color Spacing made text difficult to read Table borders were large and distracting Ugly

4. Search Course Reserves Link to contact Links to get more information Clear Search Clear affordances

5. Old: Missing Entry  Table columns are unclear  Not centered  Table borders are ugly

6. New: Missing Entry Table is clear Color attracts user attention

7. Old: Professor with Multiple Courses  What’s Num?

8. New: Professor with Multiple Courses Table makes sense

9. Old: View all Reserves  What does the button do?  Too much information  Circular Links  What’s this referring too?

10. New: View all Reserves Columns clearly defined Clearly defines what table displays Removed useless buttons

11.  Table is unnecessary  What’s all this junk?  Useless Link  Centering makes it difficult to read  “View image of:”…What’s that about?  Too much work to download all Old: View Online Reserves  Three Pages?!

12. New: View Online Reserves User can select all for easy download Easy to ready article titles Only two pages! No extra table and text Remove d useless links

13. Old: Permissions  What number?  Glad you gave me a choice

14. New: Permissions Clear where number is

15. Evaluation of New System Conducted same evaluation on 6 users. No confusion by unnecessary text. Users could not click on links that were confusing Users could download multiple files Color attracted users to important information Information was easy to find