Round 1 Recommendations
•Simplify cluttered screen design
•Resolve confusing search/browse issue
•Rethink “e-Reference collection” name
•Address the “granularity issue” by presenting article level searching separately
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Here are some of the key recommendations we made based on this round of user testing:

The screen design was far too cluttered.  Users were looking for a Google-like search box with very little text.

Combining searching and browsing in the current presentation, on one screen, did not work.

“e-Reference” was not important enough to users to keep as a name and would no longer make sense as we added functionalities to the system and interface.

As they had with e-Reference, users still expected article level searching from the front page, and now that we had this capability, we needed to present it in an intuitive way.

I do not have screen shots of the prototype that was available for the November round, and, in the interest of time, I will skip ahead to what the interface looks like now, post-launch.  To encapsulate, the near twenty users in the second round found the interface easier to understand and had suggestions for more minor design adjustments.