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How to Conduct a Heuristic Evaluation

October 3, 2009 – 8:52 pm

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. Heuristic evaluation involves having a small set of evaluators examine the interface and judge its compliance with recognized [...]

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Designing Web Sites for Older Adults: A Review of Recent, Relevant Research (2004)

September 14, 2009 – 8:42 pm

In this document from 2004, then recent, relevant research about Web site design and older adult users are reviewed. From the research reviewed here, the authors developed a set of heuristics to use in persona-based, task-based reviews of 50 Web sites that older adult users are likely to go to.
Designing Web Sites for Older [...]

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Designing web sites for older adults: Expert review of usability for older adults at 50 web sites

September 14, 2009 – 8:37 pm

In this document from 2005, findings from an expert review of 50 Web sites are presented. In a variation on the traditional heuristic evaluation methodology, heuristics were derived from research about older adults and Web design to perform persona-based, task-based reviews of Web sites that older adult users are likely to go to. The heuristics [...]

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