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Undertaking a heuristic evaluation has many benefits: They can be performed at any stage during the design process. However, conducting one at the very beginning means you get feedback early on. You can conduct them before or alongside other usability testing methods, such as tree testing or card sorting.
- What is a heuristic evaluation used for?
- How is heuristic evaluation performed?
- What are the three stages for doing heuristic evaluation?
- Under what conditions is heuristic evaluation justified?
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.
How is heuristic evaluation performed?
It's an evaluation done by one or more experts using a set of guidelines, and evaluating whether a solution meets those guidelines, how well it meets the guidelines, where it is deficient. So, expert or heuristic evaluations rely on the experience and the expertise of the evaluator.
What are the three stages for doing heuristic evaluation?
At the inspection stage, the heuristics are set into three categories based on their function: understanding, action, feedback.
Under what conditions is heuristic evaluation justified?
Heuristic evaluation is probably justified in situations where the interface is well understood. When there is little uncertainly about how the interface should function, then it is probably sufficient to just assess it internally by comparison to a checklist of design principles.
