Design Heuristics Evaluation
Tags: ux, beginners, webdev, design
Published: 2020-09-16 14:45:56


##### THE UX BASICS

## Design Heuristics Evaluation

#### A heuristic evaluation is a usability inspection method for computer software that helps to identify usability problems in the user interface design.

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Have you ever wondered how we get hooked to certain websites and spend hours without realising? Or, how it becomes so easy to navigate between some websites while with others it’s simply annoying even to identify the provided action items. So what makes these websites or products stand out? The answer to all these questions is a better User Experience Design. So grab a cup of coffee and let’s know, how, when and where we can use UX to make our products stand out by focusing on the User as the primary source of inspiration.

## Design Heuristics Evaluation

* **Discount method:**

Discount Usability Analysis, founded by Jakob Nielsen, is a cost-effective method of usability evaluation based on three techniques: scenarios, simplified think-aloud, and heuristic evaluation.

* **Inspection method:**

Use of a ****usability ****inspection ****method for computer software that helps to identify usability problems in the user interface (UI) design. It specifically involves evaluators examining the interface and judging its compliance with recognized usability principles (the “**heuristics**”).

* **Does Not need Users:**

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## **Accessing Severity**

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## **Prioritizing Problems**

* Multiple Evaluators is Better

* The sweet spot is around 3–5 people

* Solove evaluation is also very valuable

## **Heuristic Evaluation vs User testing**

* **Heuristic Evaluation:** Cheap and Fast,

* **User testing:** realistic, Find more issues, Assess UX better beyond usability

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## ***Evaluation (a***fter prototyping ends)

Evaluation needs to be focused on:

* Usability

* Task completion efficiency

* Learnability

* Memorability

* Mental effort

* Emotional measures

## Advanced

* **Analytic Evaluation**

The goal of an **analytical evaluation** is to establish relationships between actual and benchmark data to determine whether variations exist.

* **Heuristic Evaluation**

A heuristic evaluation is a usability inspection method for computer software that helps to identify usability problems in the user interface design.

* **Cognitive walkthrough**

The **cognitive walkthrough** is a usability evaluation method in which one or more evaluators work through a series of tasks and ask a set of questions from the perspective of the user.

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