User Experience is a Social Justice Issue

When we're building services for people, we often have a lot more practice seeing from the computer's point of view than seeing from another person's point of view. The author asks the library technology community to consider several case studies in this problem, including their root...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sumana Harihareswara
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Code4Lib 2015-04-01
Series:Code4Lib Journal
Online Access:http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/10482
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Summary:When we're building services for people, we often have a lot more practice seeing from the computer's point of view than seeing from another person's point of view. The author asks the library technology community to consider several case studies in this problem, including their root causes, and the negative impact of this problem on achieving our mission as library technologists. The author then recommends specific actions that we, as individual contributors and organizations, can take to increase our empathy and improve the user experience we provide to patrons.
ISSN:1940-5758