In a Heuristic Evaluation?

In a heuristic evaluation, usability experts review your site's interface and compare it against accepted usability principles. The analysis results in a list of potential usability issues.

What is meant by heuristic evaluation?

Heuristic evaluation is a process where experts use rules of thumb to measure the usability of user interfaces in independent walkthroughs and report issues. Evaluators use established heuristics (e.g., Nielsen-Molich's) and reveal insights that can help design teams enhance product usability from early in development.

What happens in a heuristic evaluation?

Heuristic evaluation involves having a small set of evaluators examine the interface and judge its compliance with recognized usability principles (the "heuristics"). ... Each of the black squares in Figure 1 indicates the finding of one of the usability problems by one of the evaluators.

Alexander Ross

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