Hey Amir, Use 'Heuristics' evaluation approach - http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html. These are a set of guidelines which will help you in reviewing the design. This quick, easy and cheap.
Ofcourse you will also get plenty information on internet on many guidelines and approaches. Keep these factors in mind before or while designing 1. The business goals - What needs to come on the site 2. Critical Success Factors - What will make the site successful 3. Key users (end users) - the primary and secondary user groups 4. Key user tasks - The important tasks the users come to the site and achieve 5. Technical constraints - technological issues (java, internet speed, black and white monitor, etc) 6. Branding guidelines - company visual standard (marketing and communication) The first 3 points will give the overall approach in understanding the design. For you to basically make your collegues, superviors or management realize the significance of usability, then you will have to go a little more deeper by knowing the ROI's of usability. The benefits of investing in usability and the revenue model, coz usability definitely does not come cheap!!!. Good luck, Rony On 6/15/08, 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
