Response rate for new ALA website wireframes survey
Just feeling the need to vent a little at my fellow ALA members…
Remember how we were *all* invited to review the look and feel, visual appeal, and all that jazz of the proposed new
ALA.org (<- link is to current sad state of affairs)
website?
Guess how many people (of the tens of thousands at Annual as well as the tens of thousands not at Annual, but on the web) submitted comments?
Go ahead. Pick a Three. Digit. Number.
I’ll give you the first one: “1″
Did you guess higher than that? Me, too; silly us.
The total number of survey responses received was One Hundred. Ninty. Four. (yes, 194)
/vent
(aside: this number gives me a flashback to Snape in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: “Turn to page three-hundred-and-ninety-four.” But, nevermind)
If you’re an ALA member, watch your inbox for another email from ALA with links to a revised (per those 194 comments) mock-up. If you have suggestions (such as fixing those horrible URLs) make sure to include them in your responses to this opportunity.
If you have nothing else to say about this iteration of new site, please do the survey anyway *and mention that the URL structure needs fixed as often as it seems relevant in the survey*
Those of us who care about that sort of thing (like me) will thank you.
As one of those 194, I had to work to find the two terminals with the design (which I found, well, uninspiring is as nice as I can get). It was not a visible station, and the signs competed with all the other signs in that area. I look forward to hearing more.
Comment by Michael Golrick — July 28, 2007 @ 9:50 am
Sorry for the delay in the comment showing up, Michael. Somehow, Akismet is being suddenly being more restrictive with comments. My more recent post:
ALA website look & feel feedback request
has the new wire frames review request details.
Comment by AaronTheLibrarian — August 9, 2007 @ 12:47 pm