Jun 20

User-Interfaces: OPAC and Amazon

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A nice example how not to design user interfaces is OPAC, an online search engine used by university libraries. Lots of students and post-graduates are dissatisfied because of getting results matching to their request in a syntactical manner, but not being able to get the books and publications having the content they really need. What would have happened, if Amazon came along with such an interface?
David Walker, web development librarian at the Cal State San Marcos , implemented a look-alike frontend using Web-Service technology to get the book metadata from Amazon. Enjoy. :-)

[via Annette and netbib]

Posted by Andreas Lenz

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