====== Usability ======

One of VuFind®'s main goals is to be a user-friendly, intuitive search system.  This page is designed to provide more detailed information on VuFind®'s usability (and how to test it, should you care to).

  * [[https://www.catholicresearch.org/index.php?option=com_dailyplanetblog&view=entry&year=2011&month=03&day=27&id=86:doing-usability-against-the-catholic-portal-|Doing Usability Against the Catholic Portal]] - This blog post describes procedures for usability testing used by [[http://www.catholicresearch.net|CRRA]] against their VuFind® instance, the Catholic Portal.  It also includes some findings from the first round of testing.
  * [[http://ital-ica.blogspot.com/2011/03/usability-of-vufind-next-generation.html|Usability of the VuFind® Next-Generation Online Catalog]] - Online comments page for an article from Information Technology and Libraries discussing VuFind® at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (free full text not available).
  * [[http://hdl.handle.net/10315/6743|Usability Testing of VuFind® at an Academic Library]] - Open access postprint of an article published in //Library Hi Tech// describing VuFind® usability testing of York University's VuFind®.
  * [[http://credaul.wordpress.com/2011/05/24/user-experience-testing/|CReDAUL Blog - User Experience Testing]]
  * [[http://journal.code4lib.org/articles/7880|Determining Usability of VuFind® for Users in the United Arab Emirates]] - An article in the [[http://journal.code4lib.org|Code4Lib Journal]].