As part of the Libraries ongoing incremental improvement of the Discover application, several new updates focused on readability and usability will be put into production as part of the September 19th Maintenance window.
Some highlights:
Header is cleaner and more functional.
- The title of the application, “Discover” is clearly displayed on the left
- The Library Websites search box has been removed from the right side and replaced with our latest OSUL branding
- Top menu is added, with Home, Ask Us and My Account navigation options
Leaner user interface design.
- Categories navigation under the main search box is improved
- White space around each result is increased to improve readability
- Confusing link to ‘See all xx,xxx …results’ in bento view is updated to ‘See more … results’
- The link to ‘See all xx,xxx..results’ is removed from the focus view
Improvement to search results
- Refined results for Library Catalog and Library Websites
- Indexing is more reliable (i.e., updates to results are happening more frequently)
- Categories to limit results are easier to read as black text on a light gray background
- Limiters were compacted into a narrow column; they now display inline as expected
- The option to add and remove limiters now functions as expected
And last but not least, the ‘More Search Tools’ sidebar will be collapsed by default, but can be expanded at the user’s discretion.
