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- What is error prevention heuristic?
- What is an example of error prevention in Nielsen's Ten heuristics?
- What is error prevention?
What is error prevention heuristic?
Error prevention is one of the 10 usability heuristics proposed by Jakob Nielsen. To put it in Nielsen's words, error prevention includes the following: “ Even better than good error messages is a careful design which prevents a problem from occurring in the first place.
What is an example of error prevention in Nielsen's Ten heuristics?
5) Error prevention
This Nielsen heuristic proposes that a good design should always prevent problems from occurring. Think of a delete files button, for example. We must assume that users might accidentally click this button or that they can imagine a different result from it.
What is error prevention?
ISO 25000 describes the 'error prevention' as 'degree to which a system protects users against making errors. ' 1 In other words, designing a system in a way that it would try to make it hard for the user to commit the error.
