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- What is a heuristic evaluation used for?
- When should you do a heuristic evaluation?
- What are some of the issues with a heuristic evaluation?
- What are the main drawbacks with heuristic evaluation inspection method?
What is a heuristic evaluation used for?
Heuristic evaluation (Nielsen and Molich, 1990; Nielsen 1994) 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 iterative design process.
When should you do a heuristic evaluation?
Overall, heuristic evaluations allow you to: Identify and focus on specific issues without having to speak to users. Discover usability problems with individual elements and how they impact the overall user experience. Provide quick and inexpensive feedback to designers.
What are some of the issues with a heuristic evaluation?
This means you have to spend a lot of time analysing and reviewing experts to make sure they are relevant and experienced in the issues you are concerned with. Another disadvantages of heuristics is that a number of experts are required and this can be time-consuming and expensive to research and set up.
What are the main drawbacks with heuristic evaluation inspection method?
The Disadvantage of Using the Heuristic Evaluation
It doesn't involve the user opinion in the testing. As the UX experts who do the testing are not the same as the end userIt should depend in more than one UX expert evaluators in order to ensure accurate results for the testing.
