Monday, October 6, 2008

What is Heuristic Evaluation ?

Heuristic evaluation is a discount usability inspection method for website, portal, software, games, etc that helps to identify usability problems in the user interface (UI) design.

Heuristic evaluation specifically involves evaluators examining the interface and judging its compliance with recognized usability principles (the "heuristics").

Heuristic evaluation is the most popular type of usability inspection method. Heuristic evaluation is relatively cheap to implement.

In conducting heuristic evaluation, a set of heuristics is used to guide the evaluators in inspection the user interface. One popular set of heuristics is the Nielsen’s Ten Heuristic Principles.

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