Build a Quality Website

2021 ◽  
pp. 89-104
Author(s):  
Dennis Meredith
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Usability Testing ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Plan Design ◽  
A Site ◽  
User Friendly

The first step to a quality website is to plan design, layout, and content with an understanding of audiences’ information needs. User-friendly design principles are also important to a website’s effectiveness. Web writing needs to be more concise than other types of writing, taking into account the reading practices of visitors to websites. Including a broad range of content makes the site a go-to resource and increases visibility. Usability testing once a site is developed also offers important insights that can guide improvements. Keeping a site fresh with new content and marketing the site also enhance its value.

Component Based Method for Usability Testing of a Website

2013 ◽  
Vol 765-767 ◽  
pp. 1507-1511
Author(s):  
Saeeda Sharmeen Rahman ◽  
Jing Nong Weng
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Modular Forms ◽  
Web Site ◽  
Usability Testing ◽  
Test Results ◽  
Testing Method ◽  
Component Based Software Engineering ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
University Web Site ◽  
The Web

This paper presents the Component-Based Software Engineering (CBSE) approach for usability testing of a web-site based on ISO 9241-11 usability guidance to achieve specified goals with effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction. Usability testing is a technique used to evaluate a product by testing it on users. A particular type of website i.e. university web site was chosen and segmented in different components in modular forms according to the purpose of that component. Then component wise tasks as per ISO 9241-11 usability guidance were prepared to carry out the usability testing for evaluating the test web-site. After analyzing the results of component based usability testing, a proto-type version of the test web-site was designed in a limited form including all the feedback of test results. Finally, the proto-type web-site was re-evaluated for establishing the effectiveness of component based web usability method with the same tasks. The proposed component based usability testing method is expected to improve the design/content issues of web-site resulting the web-site much more user friendly, effective and less time and cost consuming.

scholarly journals Usability Evaluation of Encyclopedia Websites

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-25
Author(s):  
Nor Azman Ismail ◽  
Fadzrul Izwan Jamaluddin ◽  
Akmal Harraz Hamidan ◽  
Ahmad Fariz Ali ◽  
Su Elya Mohamed ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Standard Form ◽  
Usability Testing ◽  
Cost Effective ◽  
Usability Evaluation ◽  
Web Performance ◽  
Testing Tools ◽  
Usability Tests ◽  
Website Analysis ◽  
User Friendly

Usability is an important aspect that every website should focus more. It tells us how well and success website will function with real users. Many people often think usability tests are expensive and time-consuming. It can be a cost-effective and time saver with usability testing instead of spending more time fixing an unusable website. This study evaluates the usability of encyclopedia websites by using automated usability testing tools and questionnaire methods. The questionnaire was developed based on a standard form called Website Analysis and Measurement Inventory (WAMMI) that identified 20 common usability questions divided into five categories. Each category deals with one aspect of usability. Simultaneously, the automated usability testing tools used in this study were Pingdom and GT Metrix to calculate and analyse the website performance of selected encyclopedia websites based on website components including page load time, media size and overall web performance grades. This study could help web designer, developer, and practitioners design better and more user-friendly encyclopedia websites.

scholarly journals Usability and Utility of a Mobile App to Improve Medication Adherence Among Ambulatory Care Patients in Malaysia: Qualitative Study

10.2196/15146 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. e15146 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Chew ◽  
Pauline Siew Mei Lai ◽  
Chirk Jenn Ng
Keyword(s):  
Medication Adherence ◽  
Ambulatory Care ◽  
Usability Testing ◽  
End Users ◽  
Improve Medication Adherence ◽  
Multiple User ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Beta Testing ◽  
First Interview

Background To date, several medication adherence apps have been developed. However, the existing apps have been developed without involving relevant stakeholders and were not subjected to mobile health app guidelines. In addition, the usability and utility of these apps have not been tested with end users. Objective This study aimed to describe the usability and utility testing of a newly developed medication adherence app—Med Assist—among ambulatory care patients in Malaysia. Methods The Med Assist app was developed based on the Theory of Planned Behavior and the Nielson usability model. Beta testing was conducted from March to May 2016 at a primary care clinic in Kuala Lumpur. Ambulatory care patients who scored ≥40% on the electronic health literacy scale, were aged ≥21 years, and were taking two or more long-term medications were recruited. Two rounds of in-depth interviews were conducted with each participant. The first interview, which was conducted upon participant recruitment, was to assess the usability of Med Assist. Participants were asked to download Med Assist on their phone and perform two tasks (register themselves on Med Assist and enter at least one medication). Participants were encouraged to “concurrently think aloud” when using Med Assist, while nonverbal cues were observed and recorded. The participants were then invited for a second interview (conducted ≥7 days after the first interview) to assess the utility of Med Assist after using the app for 1 week. This was done using “retrospective probing” based on a topic guide developed for utilities that could improve medication adherence. Results Usability and utility testing was performed for the Med Assist app (version P4). A total of 13 participants were recruited (6 men, 7 women) for beta testing. Three themes emerged from the usability testing, while three themes emerged from the utility testing. From the usability testing, participants found Med Assist easy to use and user friendly, as they were able to complete the tasks given to them. However, the details required when adding a new medication were found to be confusing despite displaying information in a hierarchical order. Participants who were caregivers as well as patients found the multiple-user support and pill buddy utility useful. This suggests that Med Assist may improve the medication adherence of patients on multiple long-term medications. Conclusions The usability and utility testing of Med Assist with end users made the app more patient centered in ambulatory care. From the usability testing, the overall design and layout of Med Assist were simple and user friendly enough for participants to navigate through the app and add a new medication. From the participants’ perspectives, Med Assist was a useful and reliable tool with the potential to improve medication adherence. In addition, utilities such as multiple user support and a medication refill reminder encouraged improved medication management.

Reading practices in scholarly work: from articles and books to blogs

2019 ◽  
Vol 75 (3) ◽  
pp. 478-499 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elina Late ◽  
Carol Tenopir ◽  
Sanna Talja ◽  
Lisa Christian
Keyword(s):  
Information Needs ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Information Resources ◽  
Scholarly Work ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Scholarly Publications ◽  
Information Products

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of reading in scholarly work among academics in Finland. This study analyzes readings from a variety of publication types including books, conference proceedings, research reports, magazines, newspapers, blogs, non-fiction and fiction. Design/methodology/approach An online survey was developed and distributed in Finland in 2016–2017 (n=528). Participants were asked their finding and use of scholarly information resources of all types. Findings Scholars read from a variety of publications. Different types of publications are read and used differently. Reading also varies between disciplines, ranks, work responsibilities and type of research performed. Research limitations/implications The study was a nationwide study of researchers in Finland; therefore, all findings are within the context of researchers in a single country. All results are self-reported; therefore, the authors assume but cannot be sure that respondents accurately recollect the specifics of their use of scholarly information. Practical implications The results of this study are relevant to publishers, research librarians, editors and others who serve consumers of scholarly information resources, design information products and services for those scholars, and seek to better understand the information needs and use of a variety of types of scholarly publications. Originality/value This study replicates previous studies in a variety of countries and provides a more up-to-date and single-country contextualized overview of how researchers find and use scholarly information in their work.

emiRIT: A text-mining based resource for microRNA information

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debarati Roychowdhury ◽  
Samir Gupta ◽  
Xihan Qin ◽  
Cecilia N. Arighi ◽  
K. Vijay-Shanker
Keyword(s):  
Text Mining ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Biological Process ◽  
Essential Gene ◽  
Mirna Gene ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
Context Specific ◽  
Biological Entities ◽  
User Friendly

AbstractMotivationmicroRNAs (miRNAs) are essential gene regulators and their dysregulation often leads to diseases. Easy access to miRNA information is crucial for interpreting generated experimental data, connecting facts across publications, and developing new hypotheses built on previous knowledge. Here, we present emiRIT, a text mining-based resource, which presents miRNA information mined from the literature through a user-friendly interface.ResultsWe collected 149,233 miRNA-PubMed ID pairs from Medline between January 1997 to May 2020. emiRIT currently contains miRNA-gene regulation (60,491 relations); miRNA-disease (cancer) (12,300 relations); miRNA-biological process and pathways (23,390 relations); and circulatory miRNAs in extracellular locations (3,782 relations). Biological entities and their relation to miRNAs were extracted from Medline abstracts using publicly available and in-house developed text mining tools, and the entities were normalized to facilitate querying and integration. We built a database and an interface to store and access the integrated data, respectively.ConclusionWe provide an up-to-date and user-friendly resource to facilitate access to comprehensive miRNA information from the literature on a large-scale, enabling users to navigate through different roles of miRNA and examine them in a context specific to their information needs. To assess our resource’s information coverage, in the absence of gold standards, we have conducted two case studies focusing on the target and differential expression information of miRNAs in the context of diseases. Database URL: https://research.bioinformatics.udel.edu/emirit/

User-Friendly Design of Modern Forest Fire Helmet

2013 ◽  
Vol 819 ◽  
pp. 368-372
Author(s):  
Hong Ze Yang ◽  
Bo Li ◽  
Ya Nan Wu ◽  
Bin Li
Keyword(s):  
Forest Fire ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Helmet Design

This article researches and discusses the current situation of the modern forest fire helmet. It focuses on the problems and difficulties in the modern forest fire helmet design and analyses them. With the concept of user-friendly design, this article advances the user-friendly design principles in modern forest fire helmet design.

Smartphones for Law Students – Persuasive, Pervasive and Legal: a Research Study

2014 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 174-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zaki Abbas ◽  
Andrew MacFarlane ◽  
Ayşe Göker
Keyword(s):  
Information Seeking ◽  
Information Needs ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Law Students ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Academic Context ◽  
Academic Information ◽  
The Uk ◽  
User Friendly

AbstractSmartphones have quickly become a key part of our daily lives. Over 70 percent of people in the UK own such a device and law students are no exception to this far-reaching trend1. The use of these devices has posed some significant questions on the extent of their impact on information seeking behaviour and in relation to information delivery of resources. Zaki Abbas, Andrew MacFarlane and Ayşe Göker, who have recently begun a research project together, seek to not only examine the information seeking behaviours (ISBs) of law students using their Smartphones for academic information retrieval, but also to investigate perspectives from subject law librarians from Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) throughout the UK. There is an impression that students tend to find Smartphones more appealing for their information seeking needs compared to the professional resources and services, such as virtual libraries, which their HEI have already invested in. The result leads to a deep concern from subject librarians that students may be at risk from weakening research skills as well as relying too much on poor information sources not specifically designed to meet their information needs within the academic context5. The authors also suggest that information service providers to be more pro-active in providing information to students through more user-friendly interfaces as well as capitalise on the growing use of the Smartphone as a means to deliver their product4,5,6,15.

The Literary Qur'an

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoda El Shakry
Keyword(s):  
Literary Theory ◽  
Assia Djebar ◽  
Reading Practices ◽  
Driss Chraibi ◽  
Critical Methodology ◽  
Islamic Tradition ◽  
Social Conduct ◽  
Moral Dimensions ◽  
A Site ◽  
Literary Canons

The Literary Qurʾan: Narrative Ethics in the Maghreb mobilizes the Qurʾan’s formal, narrative, and rhetorical qualities, alongside its attendant embodied practices and hermeneutical strategies, to theorize Maghrebi literature. Challenging the canonization of secular modes of reading that occlude religious epistemes, practices, and intertexts, it attends to literature as a site in which the process of entextualization obscures ethical imperatives. To that end, the book engages the classical Arab-Islamic tradition of adab—a concept demarcating the genre of belles lettres, as well as the moral dimensions of personal and social conduct. Reading Islam through its intersecting ethical and epistemological dimensions, it argues that the critical pursuit of knowledge is inseparable from the spiritual cultivation of the self. Foregrounding questions of form and praxis, The Literary Qurʾan stages a series of pairings that invite paratactic readings across texts, languages, and literary canons. Reflecting both critical methodology and argument, it places twentieth-century novels by canonical Francophone writers (Abdelwahab Meddeb, Assia Djebar, Driss Chraïbi) into conversation with lesser-known Arabophone ones (Maḥmūd al-Masʿadī, al-Ṭāhir Waṭṭār, Muḥammad Barrāda). Blending literary and theological methodologies, conceptual vocabularies, and reading practices, the study builds upon an interdisciplinary body of scholarship across literary theory, Islamic and Qurʾanic studies, philosophy, anthropology, and history.

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