UCLA Libraries engaged Dubberly Design Office to evaluate its new catalog search interface and to recommend improvements. The project consisted of two parts: how the existing system may be improved in the short-term, and how the system—and related services, might evolve in the future.

We began by meeting and interviewing 19 people associated with the Library and faculty members. An extensive audit of the catalog search service lead to a findings and recommendations document. Then we designed several ways the UCLA Library’s many search services might be organized.

For the future vision part of the project, we created user stories to propose a vision of catalog search as an integrated service, a part of a larger portfolio of electronic services.