The major goal for this week is focusing on studying the data we collected from interviews and start thinking about our design options.
Goals:
Finished: Interviewed more people from non-STEM major to get more diverse date. ( 6 more, 18 in total)
Finished: Studied about interview responses and got to know students’ way of using learning and study spaces
Finished: Sketched some ideas for the design (Map, Webpage)
Finished: Weekly reading A Project Guide to Creating UX Design Chapter 6 – 7
Started/TBC: Write official interview report.
Started/TBC: Create a short survey about location, size, amenities preference. (Probably share on FB to get more response)
Finished: Find some interesting example of map: Massport
Summary for this week:
Before we had interviews with students, Cici and I put lots of attention on how to make the reverse system easier. However, as the interview process was going on, we realized that people do not care about if the room is reservable or not that much. All interviewers have some experiences with the library already which means they already have a preference for where they want to study. Thus, changing the current reserve system can benefit some students who like to use individual rooms but this does not cover all users’ needs of our library. Most response I got from the question “Why do you choose here to study” is there are available seats. One student mentioned, “I fell like the library is not doing any advertisement on some LSS.” She said every time when she goes to the individual room on 5th floor, there will always have a room available even during reading days. Thus, I think we can switch our goal to help the student to use the library space better.