Welcome to the Winter Meeting for the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP)! The 2017 theme is Strengthening Ties Between Observations and User Communities. The theme is based on one of the goals in the 2015 - 2020 ESIP Strategic Plan, which provides a framework for ESIP’s activities over the next three years.
Over the past few months, the ESIP Usability Cluster has been exploring usability principles and discussing how User Interface (UI)/ User Experience (UX) evaluation techniques can be employed to enhance Earth science data repositories. The Usability Cluster would like to host a session at the ESIP Winter Meeting demonstrating three different UI/UX evaluation techniques: cognitive walkthrough, usability testing, and heuristic evaluation, with respect to real-life data repository interfaces/services. Three different repository interfaces will be evaluated during the session, one for each UI/UX technique, to show that these techniques can yield immediate results without being overly time consuming or burdensome. We will finish with a discussion of how wireframes can be used to communicate evaluation feedback to developers and for additional quick and easy usability testing before implementing any changes to a live system.
user-centered design (UI/UX) and data management/curation/stewardship: including but not limited to data life cycle, policies, sustainability, education and training, data quality, and trusted repositories.
