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		<title>We Launched!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We welcomed new students back last week with a brand new web site! Check out our welcome post outlining the new features of the site. As always, we appreciate your feedback. Please give us your thoughts and suggestions through the “feedback” button on the far right of the home page.
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		<link>http://news.lib.ncsu.edu/redesign/2010/08/24/we-launched/</link>
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		<title>Give Us Your Feedback!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the past several months, the Web site redesign team analyzed the information architecture of the current site, mined through usage statistics and interviewed undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty to determine a new layout and structure for the NCSU Libraries Web site.
Check out the resulting homepage design.

As you're looking through the design, keep in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.lib.ncsu.edu/redesign/2010/07/15/give-us-your-feedback-2/</link>
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		<title>Design Iterations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are in the stage of our project now where we're iterating on various designs for the homepage and subsequent pages. Once we've nailed down a design, we're moving into migration and implementation. Stay tuned for the new design in the coming weeks!
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		<link>http://news.lib.ncsu.edu/redesign/2010/06/18/design-iterations/</link>
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		<title>The Redesign Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week we made a presentation to all staff on the Web site redesign process. The presentation outlined how we determined high level organizational goals for the project, the user-centered design process we're using, our user research, our current progress with wireframing and our next steps.

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		<link>http://news.lib.ncsu.edu/redesign/2010/05/14/the-redesign-process-2/</link>
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		<title>Usability Testing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past 2 weeks, we conducted usability testing of 2 proposed search prototypes and of our proposed navigation menus for the Web site redesign.  View the following presentation for a summary of our findings from both studies.
To test navigation menus, 32 users were recruited in situ in the D.H. Hill Library lobby and asked [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.lib.ncsu.edu/redesign/2010/04/22/usability-testing/</link>
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		<title>Thanks for your feedback!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks for your feedback on the recent wireframes we posted. We've updated our wireframes per your suggestions and based on recent search box and navigation usability testing we've conducted (we'll post more about this in the coming week). Let us know what you think!

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		<link>http://news.lib.ncsu.edu/redesign/2010/04/21/thanks-for-your-feedback/</link>
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		<title>Give Us Your Feedback!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We need your feedback on our wireframe prototypes!
For the past several months, the Web site redesign team analyzed the information architecture of the current site, mined through usage statistics and interviewed undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty to determine a new layout and structure for the NCSU Libraries Web site.
Check out the resulting wireframes and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.lib.ncsu.edu/redesign/2010/04/07/give-us-your-feedback/</link>
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		<title>Meet Us in the Lobby for a Quick Survey!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Web redesign team will be in the lobby of D.H. Hill Library (right in front of the Circulation desk) this evening from 5pm - 9pm conducting quick surveys about the new Web site's navigation. We'd love to talk to you and get your feedback! Candy will be provided!
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		<link>http://news.lib.ncsu.edu/redesign/2010/04/06/meet-us-in-the-lobby-for-a-quick-survey/</link>
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		<title>Mega Dropdown Menus</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Web Redesign team has been creating wireframes for mega dropdown menus. Mega dropdowns are "big, two-dimensional drop-down panels [that] group navigation options to  eliminate scrolling and use typography, icons, and tooltips to explain  the user's choices" (Nielsen, 2009).  As we've been brainstorming the design of these menus, we're looking around at other [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.lib.ncsu.edu/redesign/2010/04/01/mega-dropdown-menus/</link>
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		<title>Personas, part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The consulting firm we hired to help us conduct user research and create personas presented their work to us this week. Personas are intended to shift your point of view so that you are better able to see a design through the eyes of its users. By making design choices that work well for a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://news.lib.ncsu.edu/redesign/2010/03/24/personas-part-2/</link>
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