UX Award 2024
Cambridge University Press win our fifth annual UX Award for 2024!
Read the news release
About our award
We established our UX Award in 2020 to recognize publishers and library systems vendors that have developed the best user experience and journey to their content and services. Our goal through this yearly award is to inspire online library service vendors to invest resource in good UX design and make access to knowledge as easy as possible for end users.
This is the fifth year of our UX Award. Previous winners include: Sage Publishing (2023), De Gruyter (2022), nkoda (2021) and Emerald Publishing (2020).
Who can apply?
Online library service vendors of all sizes including, but not limited to:
Publishers
Library systems
Research and analytics tools
UX Award webinars
We have curated a playlist of previous UX award webinars so you can catch up on the previous winners and finalists and learn about user experience.
Our 2024 award judges
- Natasha Den Dekker, lead user researcher, Santander
- Jason Griffey, director of strategic initiatives, NISO
- Russell Palmer, assistant director, GALILEO virtual library
- Heather Staines, publisher outreach, SeamlessAccess
What is the process?
- Award applications open
- Deadline for applications
- Finalists announced
- Finalists submit evidence of learner and researcher attitudes and reactions to changes in user experience
- Finalists webinar
- Winner announced at our Access Lab event
How to apply
Award criteria
We’ll provide more details but these criteria are broadly what we’re looking for:
- Evidence of user experience research.
- Demonstrate good user experience design.
- Tangible evidence of learner and researcher engagement throughout the project.
- Demonstrate an improved simple, seamless user journey.
- Provide a statement of compliance with WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility guidelines.
- Define user experience goals and objectives, and explain how you measured success.
- Evidence how a user experience approach was strategically adopted and embedded across the organization.
- Describe your future plans for user research and how a user experience approach has been embedded in product development.
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