A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the Michigan Library Association’s Applied Technology and Trends Day in Ann Arbor, MI on how to get personality into your library website, and why you want to. (Hint: Your Library is made of People!). This talk has the same title as one I gave in St. Paul a few months ago, but it’s a 93% different talk. (There are still unicorns and the Hulk.) It’s probably the talk I’m most proud of (so far), so I hope you’ll give it a look/listen. The audio is distant at times, since I felt weird standing on a stage, but it’s mostly good.
Other formats available for download below.
Resources
- Dave’s Law by Dave Pattern.
- Library Websites Should Be Smaller by Aaron Schmidt
- Bad Library Websites are a Symptom by Me
- Whiney Hess: Don Draper is the Antithesis of User Experience
- Mule Design on research methods
- Observing the User Experience by Mike Kuniavsky
- Descartes Error, by Antonio Damasio.
- Designing for Emotion, by Aarron Walter.
- Libraries as Software, by Hugh Rundle.
- The Importance of Story(thinking) in the Age of Service Ecosystems by Cindy Chastain @ IA Institutes IDEA 2010
- University of Michigan Library
- University of Alberta’s Videos
- Mary Idema Pew Library on Twitter
- Unbrary It (coming soon to the web near you)
- Harold B Library @ BYU’s’ videos.
- University of Toronto Mississauga’s’ video gamed website.