Heuristic Evaluation
What is a Heuristic Evaluation?
From useit.com
"Heuristic evaluation is the most popular of the usability inspection methods. Heuristic evaluation is done as a systematic inspection of a user interface design for usability. The goal of heuristic evaluation is to find the usability problems in the design so that they can be attended to as part of an iterative design process. Heuristic evaluation involves having a small set of evaluators examine the interface and judge its compliance with recognized usability principles (the "heuristics")."
Heuristic Evaluation
- All pages must validate with w3c validation standards
If pages do not validate, approval is required
- System should use words that the user can relate to.
- Be consistent with words, layout, text, etc.
- The user should not have to remember how to use the system; they should be able to recognize how to use it.
- Navigation should be located at the top to mid-top or on the left hand side.
- All links should have different colors for visited and non-visited.
- All images have an ALT Tag associated with it
- All links have a TITLE attribute associated with it
- Style Sheets are compliant with W3C
- Help users recover from errors (providing links, etc)
- Error messages should be described in words the user can understand
- Use breadcrumbs for users to follow their paths
- Provide multiple versions of website to view on all browsers
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