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Design Example: Designing Water Slide

Design Example: Designing Water Slide

When designing a water slide, controlling the speed of water flow is crucial for rider safety while maintaining an exciting experience. As water flows down the slide, gravity causes it to accelerate, with its speed at the bottom depending on the height from which it starts. The higher the slide, the more potential energy the water has at the top, which is converted into kinetic energy as it descends, increasing its speed.
Bernoulli's principle determines the water's velocity along the slide....

Design Example: Marking Boundaries of a Site Using a Compass

Design Example: Marking Boundaries of a Site Using a Compass

Marking site boundaries using a compass is a precise surveying technique that ensures the accuracy of boundary delineation. The process begins by using provided site details, including the bearings and lengths of each boundary line. The initial step involves calculating latitudes and departures for all sides of the site. This computation verifies that the traverse is free of errors, ensuring a closed and accurate boundary.The process starts at a known point, such as Point A, which is often...

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Design Consideration

Designing a structure involves a series of considerations, primarily the material's ultimate strength, calculated through tests that measure changes under increased force until the material reaches its breaking point or limit. The ultimate load, where the material breaks, is divided by its original cross-sectional area, resulting in the ultimate normal stress or strength. The ultimate shearing stress is another significant factor taken into account.
The factor of safety is another key...

Design Example

Design Example

The innovation of touch-tone telephony revolutionized the telecommunications industry by replacing the traditional rotary dial with a dual-tone multi-frequency (DTMF) signaling system. This system uses a matrix-style keypad with buttons arranged in four rows and three columns, creating 12 distinct signals each assigned to a pair of frequencies. Each button press results in a simultaneous generation of two sinusoidal tones – one from a low-frequency group (697 to 941 Hz) and one from a...

Design Example: Vintage Mixing Console

Design Example: Vintage Mixing Console

A sound engineer at a music company recently encountered a problem. The output from their newly acquired studio's vintage mixing console was too low for the requirements of modern recording equipment. To rectify this situation, the engineer decided to design an audio pre-amplifier using an operational amplifier (op-amp) to boost the signal level.
The specifications for the pre-amplifier were clear. It needed to amplify the audio signal by a factor of 10, have an input impedance above 10...

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Website Redesign: A Case Study.

Jin Wu¹, Janis F Brown¹

¹a Norris Medical Library , University of Southern California , Los Angeles , California , USA.

Medical Reference Services Quarterly

|April 8, 2016

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Redesigning a library website is complex, involving user needs assessment, design, testing, and launch. Lessons from the Norris Medical Library

Keywords:

Google Analytics WordPress usability studies web development website redesign

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Area of Science:

Library and Information Science
Human-Computer Interaction
Web Design and Development

Background:

Library website redesigns are complex projects.
They require a multidisciplinary approach and careful planning.

Purpose of the Study:

To share lessons learned from a specific library website redesign project.
To provide guidance for other institutions undertaking similar initiatives.

Main Methods:

User needs assessment
Analysis of past user behavior
Competitive analysis of other websites
Design preference definition
Website testing and marketing strategies
Site launch planning

Main Results:

The Norris Medical Library successfully navigated a complex website redesign.
Key steps included user research, design, testing, and launch.

Conclusions:

The Norris Medical Library's redesign experience offers valuable insights.
These lessons can inform and assist other libraries planning website redesigns.