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Posts tagged with User Experience in Blog The Digital Collections Files

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Screen capture of digital collections A to Z list, showing a search box and filters.
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  • Olivier U Bahizi
Bridging Theory and Practice: My Journey into Library UX in Finding Aids and Digital Collections at U-M Library
Olivier Bahizi, recipient of our summer 2025 Fellowship in Library User Experience, shares insights from his study of challenges users face when navigating the U-M Library's archival and digital collections across several platforms. Key themes include difficulties in discovery and access, limitations due to metadata, and lack of awareness and information literacy about archival materials.
Screenshot of a session where a Filipino researcher is showing how they use the Philippines digital collection home page
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  • Ruikun Wang
  • Ben Howell
Uncovering Needs of Filipino Researchers with our Philippines Digital Collection: Part 2
Part 2 of the series "Uncovering Needs of Filipino Researchers with our Philippines Digital Collection" explores a UX research study aimed at improving the University of Michigan’s Philippines digital collection interface. The study initially focused on understanding user pain points with the legacy collection interface. Following the launch of a redesigned interface, short-term fixes were implemented based on user feedback, while long-term needs were documented for future platform updates.
Screenshot of the two search results in the American Verse Project digital collection from the University of Michigan Library for the word "moon".
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  • Emma Brown
  • Suviksha Hirawat
The power of usability testing and subtle design changes to improve UX
As user experience researchers and designers, it is our job to design better solutions for complex interfaces. Read on to learn our research and design process from discovering a usability issue to proposing solutions in collaboration with developers.