CogSci Librarian

In case you were wondering, there are a few places you can see me this fall, and if you can't come see me, you can read some stuff I wro...

While on my flight home from NASIG last week, I used my iPod Touch to watch a New Yorker conference session called Deconstructing the Airpo...

I've been so busy filling up my spring dance card that I haven't been blogging. Here's what I'm up to, if you want to follo...

Two great posts yesterday: Dutch librarian Wouter Gerritsma posted about a Swedish usability research project comparing students' searc...

Read an interesting article yesterday from JASIS&T which covered usability for seniors in two domains: first, the article talks about ...

Over on facebook, some librarians are having a discussion of favorite LIS books. I can't think of a dedicated LIS book that I like, but...

SFX / programmer / librarian whiz David Walker has created a simplified "SFX menu" (OpenURL resolver / thingie that gets you from ...

Today I'm speaking at Simmons GSLIS West about usability. You can see the useful links I've gathered over the years on my Simmons wi...

One of my favorite programmers (ProgrammerGuy) went to the Code4Lib conference & gave us an update on some of the interesting things h...

One of my former students has just published an article that may interest my readers: Leslie Porter: Library applications of business usabil...

Guy Kawasaki’s blog, How to Change the World: A practical blog for impractical people, lists The Top Ten Stupid Ways to Hinder Market Adop...

I'm going to do a short presentation on usability for Simmons GSLIS (West) on March 24. I'll talk about good usability principles a...

I spent the past year working with some colleagues on a redesign for our Research Database Locator. That's the database mechanism we us...

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox for December 18 is called Usability in the Movies -- Top 10 Bloopers , and it pokes fun at computer user interf...

Fascinating column by Donald Norman about simplicity, design, and marketing. In Simplicity Is Highly Overrated , Norman argues that while ...

Great post over on the http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/" target="_blank">Creating Passionate Users ...

The great Stephen Abram, in his Stephen's Lighthouse blog points to a Flickr site on Library Signage . There are some good ones & ...

Finally! I'm recovered enough from teaching to start reading the journals that have piled up patiently awaiting my attention. The Journ...