Behzad, You may find these usability guidelines published by the US government helpful as a starting point for a heuristic evaluation as suggested by Itamar:
http://www.usability.gov/pdfs/guidelines.html (Please don't judge them based on their source :)) Hope this helps, Dmitry On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 7:23 AM, AmirBehzad Eslami <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear List, > e-Greetings, > > I'm an undergraduate computer science student. I live in Tehran, Iran. > ... Please don't judge me based on my location. > > Here, there are no Usability Engineers or Interaction Designers, > but thousands of programmers who tend to "design". Websites are > pre-built using CMSes (e.g. Joomla, phpNuke). The User-centered > approach is just a new term. Nobody cares about the end-user. > Universities do not teach User Interface design. No Usability Labs at all. > > In such a world, I'm trying to write an article about evaluating > quality of websites. I'm trying to find some sort of criteria to allow > non-Interaction designers to evaluate websites. These criteria > should not require the tester to have an HCI background, nor the > attendance of users during the test. > > Do you have any idea on how to evaluate websites in this style? > Is there any checklist available? What articles have written on this > subject? > How do you evaluate websites if you're in hurry? > > I appreciate your answers. > Thank you very much in advance. > -behzad > ________________________________________________________________ > Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! > To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe > List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines > List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help > ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
