Video Lecture — Lecture 6.1

Introduction

This lecture introduces you to one branch of methods we can use to gather feedback so-called expert reviews & formal (aka analytical/non-empirical) evaluations. The associated exploration makes use of imagery and reviews in detail Jakob Nielsen's Heuristic Evaluation, which represents one of the most popular expert review methods in Usability Engineering.

Topics

  • Expert Reviews & Formal Evaluations
  • Examples of Expert Reviews & Formal Evaluations
  • Heuristic Evaluation
  • Nielsen’s 10 Heuristics and 5 Severity Ratings
  • Basic Steps of a Heuristic Evaluation
  • An example of a minor usability problem (severity=1)
  • An example of a usability catastrophe (severity=4)
  • Advantages and Limitations of the Heuristic Evaluation

Lecture 6.1 | Heuristic Evaluation

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