There hasn't been any full-fledged usability testing done. We've made some incremental changes prior to the large rewrite based on feedback and research, but this is a good candidate for usability testing.

FWIW, the three issues reported by the more general audience have been:
As it grows a bit more and we come up with some better cases, that might help us to get a more useful usability evaluation, but we may want to do usability of search at the U as a whole, rather than this one component.

On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:06 AM, Tonu Mikk <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Peter, thanks for making this available.
>
> Has the tabbed search been tested for usability?  If so, what were some of
> the findings?
>
> Thanks,
> Tonu
>
> On 6/14/2010 8:42 AM, Peter Wiringa wrote:
>>
>> For anyone interested in tabbed search, we made some significant
>> changes about the time of the last meeting. These are now documented
>> and available at http://webdepot.umn.edu/tabbed-search.php.
>>  
>