Questions tagged [heuristics]
experience-based techniques for problem solving, learning, and discovery. Heuristics may be semi-formalized or a simple rule of thumb, an educated guess, an intuitive judgment, or common sense.
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Why don't browsers show a dialog when closing a tab?
Is there a specific reason why browsers don't inquire whether users want to close a tab or not? This feature is enabled in some browsers (possibly all, though not certain), but only for multiple tabs, ...
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Usability Heuristics - any other Heuristic studies other than Jakob's 10 Heuristics?
Whenever I look up to usability analysis examples and case studies I see these are done around the 10 Usability Heuristics by Jakob from NN group.
I am reaching out to the community if anybody has any ...
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Heuristic Evaluation of an Electric Vehicle [duplicate]
I am looking for a methodology for Heuristic validation/testing of electric vehicle driver touch points. Not specific to digital features (cluster, touch radio display, etc.) but also physical ...
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"Best Practices" vs. user research
I have been hearing and seeing "using best practices" as an alternative for not doing research and/or justifying tight deadlines imposed on UX practitioners. This excuse is used especially ...
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Which guideline includes Accessibility when using Nielsen's Heuristics?
We've been tasked with performing a heuristic analysis for a project, and the requirements specifically include the use Nielsen's heuristics.
Although this isn't a problem for us, we usually use a ...
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Visibility of system status for long term status
The first heuristic of Nielsen speaks about "** Visibility of system status **" that suggests the designer keep every information the user about the state of some operations, the classic ...
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Heuristic evaluation: user control and freedom for long-winded undo
Is the "user control and freedom" heuristic violated if an "exit" option from an unwanted state is available, but the user has to put a lot of extra effort into exiting?
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Create UX Case study with Heuristic Evaluation but no user research
I have performed heuristic evaluation on a couple of websites and have them recorded on my notepad. I am re-designing the screens as per my findings from the heuristic evaluation.
Could you help me ...
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Heuristic evaluation done by the developer himself?
I am making a software project within one of the university's courses with the focus on the UX and came across the term heuristic evaluation, which could be pretty nice idea to use for evaluation of ...
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Usability Heuristic - User Control & Freedom
I'm running an UX project and need help from you guys. Usability Heuristic states that we should include "Redo" "Undo" button for users. I wonder if "Reset" button (for example: reseting all the ...
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Criteria for what qualifies as a heuristic violation?
I've been conducting a heuristic evaluation on a web application with roughly 15 evaluators, all of whom are single experts (i.e. familiar with the application but not usability experts). We're using ...
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Questionnaire for determining usability of a system
As part of a pitch, business are determining the usability of two software products and have come up with a questionnaire to ask a set of end users.
They have asked me to feedback on the ...
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How to run heuristic evaluation
While running a heuristic evaluation, is there a recommended number of tasks?
I'm struggling with the scoring part. Do I perform all tasks, take notes of the problems and then identify severity based ...
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Setting acceptance threshold for usability evaluation outcome
I am working on a framework to evaluate our products usability against our product design tenets which are nothing else than 10 usability (N&N) heuristics in our own words. The goal is to identify ...
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Usability evaluation methods: which was first?
Nielsen and Molich introduced the heuristic evaluation method in 1990, and it was reviewed by Nielsen until 1995, when he exposed his 10 Heuristics for User Interface Design that currently still are a ...
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