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This isn't an exhaustive list of our project outputs, but provides a good overview of what we've done and how we've disseminated our findings.

• June 2022: UXLibs VI presentation on UX culture at the library - presentation link (and year book article) to follow
• April 2021: Article by Alice Bennett and Lilian Soon for ALISS Quarterly | User research with disabled students (PDF)
• December 2019: The YorSearch Improvement Project was conducted over the course of a year, featuring three rounds of ethnography and the implementation of a new Library Catalogue User Interface. A presentation will be forthcoming at the next UXLibs Conference. | YorSearch Improvement Project Closure Report (York log-in required)
• November 2019: UX at York: embedding ethnography and design - a keynote delivered at the Stellenbosch University Library Symposium. | Blogpost with embedded video recording 
• November 2019: A large UX project on the entrance space of the Morrell Library, known as UX Space, resulted in a complete redesign. This included successfully bidding for funding to build a Fabrick Wall. | Building the Fabrick Wall blogpost
• September 2019: English as Second Language - a presentation on a UX-led project run within Customer Services, delivered at Northern Collaboration Conference. | ESL UX Project Presentation
• July 2019: A UX project was undertaken to focus on the experience of students studying Nursing. | Understanding the experience of Nursing Students: Blogpost 1 and Blogpost 2
• November 2018: Keynote at the Stellenbosch University Library Symposium, South Africa | UX at York: Embedding Ethnography & Design
• June 2018: A talk on embedding UX at York delivered at the UXLibs IV Conference, and later written up for the Yearbook. | Embedding UX and Ethnography at York on Slideshare - UXLibs Yearbook Article (OA)
• September 2017: The Understanding Academics project took place over all of 2016 and some of 2017. There were a huge number of outputs from it, of which three are linked here. | Understanding Academics: Final Report - UXLibs III Presentation and Blogpost - Peer-Reviewed Article (OA) 
• March 2017: A presentation on starting small and scaling up UX, delivered at the Northern Collaboration UX Conference | UX at York on Slideshare
• February 2017: UX, Ethnography and Possibilities - a presentation delivered at the Libraries, Archives and Museums Marketing Awards in Wales, which has now been viewed almost over 1 million times online | UX, Ethnography and Possibilities on Slideshare
• March 2016: Our second UX project was focused on the experiences of PGRs. | PGR UX Presentation (York log-in required)
• September 2015: Emma Grey (our UX Intern) wrote a report on our very first UX Project, covering study space, finding resources, and noise levels among other things. Several design changes eventually came out of this project. | Summer UX Report (York log-in required)

This is a chronological list of all the projects we've undertaken since 2015 which have involved or been driven by UX methodologies. The project folders all require a York log-in; if you're external to York and wish to know more about any of these, please get in touch with Ned Potter in the first instance.