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Final Report Abstract:

The Website Redesign Task Force, instantiated by outgoing HFES President, Mica Endsley, was active during 2012 and was charged with improving usability and utility of the hfes.org website in serving the needs of its key constituencies (e.g., members, practitioners, faculty, students, chapter and committee members, press, congressional staffers, HFES staff, the general public, etc.) in keeping with HFES Strategic Goals.

We developed a two-pronged approach to achieve these ends. The near-term effort was to provide "quick hits" guidance to staff - things that could be corrected in the current website to improve usability in the short term. For the longer term, a plan was proposed to gather and rank user requirements in the form of User Stories (role, desired result, need or goal addressed). A modularized moving-forward process was also proposed to facilitate contributions by various volunteers and contractors after the Task Force is retired at the end of 2012.

To get the process started, three online pilot surveys were put in place at www.hfergo.com/hfesweb, followed up by a Birds of a Feather brainstorming session during the 2012 Annual Meeting. To date, there have been 36 "Quick Hits" proposed in the first survey with the most popular ideas getting on the order of 26 votes. Seven "competitor" websites have been identified for further analysis, and 17 strategic User Stories were proposed with the highest ranking stories garnering up to 23 votes.

The work of this Task Force will be taken over by a standing committee under the direction of incoming HFES President, Eduardo Salas in 2013.

The Task Force would like to thank the committee members and volunteers/contributors and, especially, co-chair Amanda Surprenant for helping to organize the brainstorming session.

Chair, John F. ("Jeff") Kelley

Final report (draft) of Task force: TF_WebsiteRedesign_Final.htm

Surveys

Snapshot of 3 Surveys Findings (*.xls - scraped on 12/30/2012)

Note: These surveys remain open for your input until they are retired by the 2013 Standing Website Redesign Committee. For each survey you can participate in, first read the ideas submitted, then add your own new idea, then vote for your 10 favorite ideas!

1. Current Web Design "Quick Hits" (This is most important for Wednesday meeting!)
2. Your Favorite Competitor Websites
3. Future Website Requirements