I also sat in on the UPA session in Portland last week where an esteemed panel spent a full 90 minutes bantering about the semantic differences between a heuristic evaluation and an expert review.
Honestly, the difference is so small that does it really matter? Any review is better than no review - whether you're using Nielsen's 2,000-something heuristics, a sub-set of those, your own set of heuristics, or heuristics with your own experience (which is probably based on heuristics you picked up somewhere along the lines anyway). My "expert" recommendation: to stop arguing over semantics and start actually making websites and applications easier to use. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=42932 ________________________________________________________________ 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
