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Posts by Emma Brown

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Screen shot for home page of the Reptile and Amphibian Audio Files collection.
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  • Emma Brown
User Research: Interface for Audio and Moving Image Digital Collections
For the past year, U-M Library Digital Collections have been undergoing some big design changes. This blog post tells the story of launching and evaluating the usability of collections containing a new type of media: audio and moving images (AMI). In a research study consisting of a heuristic evaluation and 50 usability tests with a diverse group of users, the team uncovered over 20 mostly minor usability issues, recommended improvements to the interface that will be implemented in 2024 and beyond, and learned a lot about the complexity of library products along the way.
An abstract painting by U-M Professor Rudolph Arnheim
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  • Emma Brown
  • Robyn Ness
Visualizing jazz: a journey into the Hazen Schumacher digital collection’s banner image
The U-M Library’s digital collections recently expanded to include an Audio and Moving Image (or AMI) digital collections interface. This post details a designer's journey in finding a banner image for the Hazen Schumacher's Jazz Revisited Radio Show digital collection.