Lauren Stara's guest appearances

Lauren Stara

Circulating Ideas

Library Leadership Podcast

Rebekkah Smith Aldrich

Steve Albrecht

Tracie D. Hall

Michael Stephens

Grady Hendrix

January LaVoy

Dion Graham

Jeff Davis

Tiffany Hayes

Karen Keninger

Imbolo Mbue

Miriam Kahn

Stacy Brown

Gail Carriger

Jessica Hayes

OwlTail

What is User Experience and how can it help us support our communities? On this show I speak with Lauren Stara, Library Building Specialist for the State of Massachusetts. She shares what is behind the User Experience movement and how getting out of our own heads and into those of our users can lead us to advancements that will take our libraries with fresh eyes into the future.

What is User Experience and how can it help us support our communities? On this show I speak with Lauren Stara, Library Building Specialist for the State of Massachusetts. She shares what is behind the User Experience movement and how getting out of our own heads and into those of our users can lead us to advancements that will take our libraries with fresh eyes into the future.

84. User Experience with Lauren Stara

Callan Bignoli

Steve chats with Callan Bignoli and Lauren Stara, authors of Responding to Rapid Change in Libraries: a User Experience Approach, about how they met and decided to write a book together, how the New York Public Library lions guided their thinking, and the myriad issues libraries need to consider to prepare for future change.  CALLAN BIGNOLI is the director of the library at Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts. She gathers inspiration from everywhere to inform user-centered practices and push the profession forward. Callan studies and speaks about user experience design, library management, and social issues in technology, challenging students and colleagues to fight for a more just and human future. She tweets at @eminencefont and can be reached at callan.bignoli@gmail.com. LAUREN STARA is a library building specialist with the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, helping public libraries around the Commonwealth improve their physical spaces. A registered architect and a librarian, she has worked in and/or consulted for libraries in eight US states, three Canadian provinces, and three Eastern European countries. She has taught at library schools in Canada and Bulgaria, and she speaks and presents frequently on library design, design thinking, and service design. Lauren can be reached at lauren.stara@gmail.com. SHOW NOTES: Responding to Rapid Change in Libraries: a User Experience ApproachAmbient Findability by Peter MorvilleDon’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug“Vocational Awe and Librarianship: the Lies We Tell Ourselves” by Fobazi Ettarh | In The Library With The Lead PipeLibrary Space: A Planning Resource for Librarians

<a href="https://ia801501.us.archive.org/26/items/ci-195/CI195.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Steve chats with Callan Bignoli and Lauren Stara, authors of Responding to Rapid Change in Libraries: a User Experience Approach, about how they met and decided to write a book together, how the New York Public Library lions guided their thinking, and the myriad issues libraries need to consider to prepare for future change.</a> <a href="https://circulatingideas.files.wordpress.com/2020/12/callan-and-laura-1.png" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"></a> CALLAN BIGNOLI is the director of the library at Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Massachusetts. She gathers inspiration from everywhere to inform user-centered practices and push the profession forward. Callan studies and speaks about user experience design, library management, and social issues in technology, challenging students and colleagues to fight for a more just and human future. She tweets at @eminencefont and can be reached at <a href="mailto:callan.bignoli@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noopener">callan.bignoli@gmail.com</a>. LAUREN STARA is a library building specialist with the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners, helping public libraries around the Commonwealth improve their physical spaces. A registered architect and a librarian, she has worked in and/or consulted for libraries in eight US states, three Canadian provinces, and three Eastern European countries. She has taught at library schools in Canada and Bulgaria, and she speaks and presents frequently on library design, design thinking, and service design. Lauren can be reached at <a href="mailto:lauren.stara@gmail.com" rel="noreferrer noopener">lauren.stara@gmail.com</a>. SHOW NOTES: <a href="https://www.alastore.ala.org/content/responding-rapid-change-libraries-user-experience-approach" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Responding to Rapid Change in Libraries: a User Experience Approach</a> <a href="https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/ambient-findability/0596007655/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ambient Findability by Peter Morville</a> <a href="https://sensible.com/dont-make-me-think/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Don’t Make Me Think by Steve Krug</a><a href="https://mblc.state.ma.us/programs-and-support/construction/libraryspace.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"> </a><a href="http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/2018/vocational-awe/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">“Vocational Awe and Librarianship: the Lies We Tell Ourselves” by Fobazi Ettarh </a>| <a href="http://www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">In The Library With The Lead Pipe</a> <a href="https://mblc.state.ma.us/programs-and-support/construction/libraryspace.php" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Library Space: A Planning Resource for Librarians</a>

195: Callan Bignoli and Lauren Stara