Heuristic evaluation is a discount usability inspection method for portal, website and software that helps to identify usability problems in the user interface (UI) design. Evaluators examine the user interface and judge its compliance with predetermined usability guidelines (the "heuristics").
A popular set of heuristics is Nielsen’s Ten Heuristics. Many usability researchers and practitioners have also come up with their customized set of heuristics. For instance, I personally had researched and generated a set of 36 usability criteria (heuristics) for e-learning applications.
Heuristic evaluation is one of the usability inspection method in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI). It is relatively cheap and easy to implement. It is also relative fast as compared to usability testing. There is no requirement to set up a usability lab in order to conduct heuristic evaluation.
Heuristic evaluation is popularized by Jakob Nielsen.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment