Usability Testing Case Study

Making the Barnard Digital Collections website more user-friendly to revive existing users and attract new users

Spring 2020

Written by:

Hiral Parekh

Project Summary

Created in 2014, the Barnard Digital Collections website features materials from the Barnard Archives and Special Collections, offering students and researchers access to about 85,000 resources including but not limited to digitized photographs, yearbooks, and newspapers, with more added to the site every day. Our goal for the project was to make the website easy and efficient to use in order to attract more users and revive the old ones. Our ambitions were to create a strong foundation that embraced simple navigation and efficient researching, be it for Barnard student researchers, staff members, or external researchers.