1. The New Interface for the Library Catalogue Proposal 10

2. Introduction In this presentation I am going to design a new interface for the university library catalogue. There will be three new tasks that the users will be able to perform, a design metaphor, and a brief description of the actual interface design.

3. The 3 New Tasks The three new tasks that the users will be able to perform are: Selecting the search criteria with radio buttons. Have the use of a type of office assistant for help. As well as a quick search it could have an advanced search.

4. Task 1 In the current columns the user is only able to select one option to search by, e.g. Title or author etc. This is done by clicking on the word and the user may not be aware of this. With the radio buttons they will be able to select more than one option to search with, this will help if there are a number of books with the same titles and different authors.

5. Task 2 A type of office assistant like the one used in Microsoft office will help the user explore the site better. Instead of it being a paper-clip it could be a librarian. It could help by explaining what things like isbn stand for etc.

6. Task 3 In the current catalogue the user is able to do a quick search for a book. This will be the minimum criteria need to see whether the book is available in the library. With an advanced search they will be able to find different editions and also read a little review to be sure that this book will help them, or is the one they are looking for.

7. Design of The Metaphor The library catalogue represents a register that holds all the information of the books that are available in the university library. Therefore the metaphor will need to represent the library and some sort of storage, to show that it is like a search engine.

8. The Metaphor I would call it a library- log, as this shows that it is to do with the library and the ‘log’ is short for the catalogue. If it had an icon then it would look like a library book.

9. Mappings

10. The Interface Design This design will be pretty similar to the original. The logo will be in the top left corner, with the heading following it in a banner. Where the quick search link is, there will be an advanced link underneath. The radio buttons will be after the words boldly stood out, and the words will stay as they are in the columns.