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What is Heuristic Evaluation?  

5. analysing your results

Once your evaluators have:

  • worked their way through the tasks or goals you set,
  • evaluated each of these in light of the ten heuristics, and
  • provided their feedback,
you'll need to compile all the information. Remove any duplicates and combine similar issues. What's left will be a set of problems or comments that you can address to improve your site's usability.
How do I conduct a Heuristic Evaluation?  
Plan a Heuristic Evaluation
Choose your evaluators
Review Heuristics
Conduct the Evaluation
Analyze the results from the Evaluation
Report Results of Heuristic Evaluation  
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Remember the Golden Rule!
The golden rule of usability is:


There's no such thing as a "user error"!
Make sure you clarify every problem your evaluators identify - ask questions so that you understand the specific nature of the difficulties they encountered. And remember:

  • don't argue with your evaluators,
  • don't try to "explain away" problems they identified
If an evaluator found an aspect of your site confusing, then it's more than likely that your Website visitors might have problems with it too.

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Last updated February 17th 2002