On Jun 17, 2009, at 3:55 PM, Kishor Sonawane wrote:
In Heuristic evaluation, evaluator evaluates design with reference of design principles to find out the usability issues. How Expert Review is different from this? Is there any major difference or its the same?
As you can see from the answers, none of these differences are really true.
"Heuristic Evaluation" and "Expert Review" are just labels that people put on the activity they are doing, which is usually some sort of criticism of a design. The actual distinctions are typically meaningless.
I've seen "heuristic evaluations" that didn't involve any heuristics at all. I've seen "expert reviews" where no-one in the room was actually an expert beyond just being a smart person who could write a report. Yet, everyone believed the labels and, in most cases, believed the results.
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