ABSTRACT
Interface design structures the visual layout of a site to support its functional features and reveal the intellectual content. Interface communicates the identity of a project, signals the target audience, and provides a well-organized experience through graphical means. Keeping a visitor aware of how to find what they want while discovering new research materials is a challenge, whether the project is a repository, exhibit, publication, or aggregation of contributions. Design tasks include making explicit scenarios of potential visitors whose goals, actions, and experience can be sketched step-by-step, followed by actual user-testing. As the range of devices through which digital resources are accessed has proliferated, responsive interface design has developed to customize display effectively on different platforms. Interface should be prototyped from the outset, to visualize the project features, not added at the end.
