On Jun 15, 2008, at 7:23 AM, AmirBehzad Eslami wrote:
What articles have written on this
subject?
In 1997, my colleagues and I wrote an entire book on the subject:
http://tinyurl.com/4hx9sz
How do you evaluate websites if you're in hurry?
It's simple. There's only one question: Can the
Dear Shrikant, and
Dear Itamar,
I was aware of heuristic evaluation. The problem with this approach,
- IMO - is that it requires one or more Usability Engineers(s) for
conducting
the evaluation. But thank you anyway; I appreciate your kind and informative
replies.
Dear Charles,
I'm going to stick
Hi Behzad:
It sounds like you have plenty of good advice already, but let me add
my two bits. For website clients whom I was pretty sure wouldn't
understand Nielsen's heuristics, I created this 4-item list (with
explanatory bullets):
I know where I am.
* The system provides clear answers
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
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
It sounds like you could use a HEURISTICS EVALUATION:
Heuristic evaluation (Nielsen and Molich, 1990; Nielsen 1994:
http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/) is a usability engineering
method for finding the usability problems in a user interface design
so that they can be attended to as part of an
From what you say, it seems that you have two goals: first, to convince
people that this is something worth paying attention to and second, to give
them a picture of how to do it.
To me, this suggests that you should consider basing the article around a
set of examples that demonstrate how the
