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Alessandra Luciano (Luxembourg), Mon 4 Nov
Link to recording
Key takeaways (UX)
She could see using it as a dashboard as well as a presentation/advocacy tool.
To advocate for more funding.
To inspire a bit of competition in the data providers!
User expected to be able to navigate to her country page via the map/country list on the main dashboard - she tried to do this twice!
She did not find ‘Country Pages’ tab until prompted.
She had difficulty finding Luxembourg in the Country Pages dropdown.*
The top section of the country page (3D/HQ/All cards) are very useful; they clearly show the current and target states of the data.
The user navigated back to the main dashboard several times, and did not understand the difference between the two without explanation.
She requested an easier-to-find explanation of data tiers, as she could not recall what they meant from memory.
Data Progression table is too complex*; she avoided interacting with it until prompted. She preferred comparing countries on the main dashboard page. She didn’t realise how to get the hover effect on the line chart until prompted. Once she realised, she found it quite useful to compare countries.
The function of the squiggly lines to ‘zoom-in’ on the Content Type bar chart near the bottom of the country page was not clear to her.*
User requested a high-level entry landing page/section to her own country page; she doesn’t think it makes sense to have the main dashboard is the entry point for member states - they want to see their own country first.
*The styling of components would could be clearer if they used more common patterns (e.g. https://styleguide.europeana.eu/#/Style/Bootstrap%20Vue?id=dropdown )
Key takeaways (data)
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Graph in the middle of the country page doesn’t show 2021, it only shows in the [hidden] table
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Discovery questions: about her role and day-to-day
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Gave her the direct link to the Poland country page https://metis-statistics.europeana.eu/en/country/Poland
Quite obvious what’s it about, but maybe for people who don’t know the exact context, maybe they won’t understand - what is the target, what does it mean - contentxualising contextualising that it’s about the EC recommendation, link to that, etc.
What does high quality mean? Not everyone might know (and it’s not obvious where to find the defitnion definition - the “?' info icon is not easy to find, and is too small (not accessible, hidden until you get closer with your mouse (don’t hide it)
Numbers are what she’d expect, but the target for 991,127 3D items by 2030 is impossible, “we can’t do it” - that number in the recommendation - why is it so high? Who made this number? Was it our idea or somebody else’s? How did they count it?
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By media type chart - “I have to focus on that; it’s not so clear for me what is here” - “you need some time” - squinting and reading, Fiona offered explanation for the pills at the top showing quality tiers; a lot of info and numbers
She interacted with the dropdown at the top, and was confused at first when it showed netherlands Netherlands (because it was the highest) instead of Poland
“I can see Europe here” the label of Europea Europe as a country on the y-axis is not fully accurate
Flag button in top right of that carddoesncard doesn't work
Fiona had to prompt her how to go back to her country page, via the link in the top left
(a lot of prompts required for navigation)
By Content Tier - “top tier” as “1” doesn’t make intuitive sense; it’s the most common tier, not the best tier
The squiggly line to zoom in is not intuitive - 'maybe you can switch it, make it not visible when there are small numbers only when there are big numbers(???)
Not obvious that you can click on them to see queries on europeana.eu showing those tiers
Export data - is interesting; “is it on every page” - would also want on the country page itself
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It’s really useful
Give more description that it’s about European Commission recommendations
Have you thought maybe about the perspective of users - I would be really interested to see how the end-users work with this data
In other words, she’s interested in the usage stats dashboard - wants to see which data is popular with end-users
She thinks it would make sense to be displayed here in the same dashboard
Georgia Angelaki and Elena Lagoudi (Greece),
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Thu 28 Nov
Notes
Chris de Loof (Belgium), Thu 28 Nov
(in person)
Notes
Antonio Davide Madonna (Italy), Fri 29 Nov
Recording can be found here.
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