Blog 5
Evaluating the UI with Heuristic Evaluations: Once the medium-fidelity design was completed, we reviewed Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics to refresh our memories of what they consisted of. With the heuristics fresh in our minds, we were then able to think about how we could improve upon our project based on this design format. From that point, I would say that we used Nielsen's heuristics as a tool to help push us in the right direction. For example, we would compare a heuristic like visibility and then refer back to our project to make sure that it was easy to follow visually, and also to make sure that, from an intuitive standpoint, it was easy to follow from page to page. As we went through each heuristic, we discovered that some were more challenging than others. For me personally, I would say that the most challenging heuristic that we had to work on for our project was user control and freedoms. I felt this was the most challenging because of how far along our medium-f...