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FHTW Berlin
Fachbereich 4
Internationale Medieninformatik
MMA I: Aktuelle Themen multimedialer Anwendungen
Sommersemester 2001
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Exercise
2: Heuristic Site Evaluation II
Now we know a bit more about
heuristic site evaluation. Review the summary if
you are unsure what this entails.
- First choose a site that you will
be evaluating. This should not be any of the sites you used in the last exercise.
Do not look at the site when choosing! Discuss a company you want to look at without
seeing if it is a good or bad site! Check with me if I think this is a good idea.
- Design
a scenario for using the site (still without looking at the site!!). For example,
if you chose to look at the pages for amazon.de (this one is now no longer available)
you might want to look for and purchase a CD with the song that is like an Indian
song and sounds like Hey a mamma hey a he he mamma. You will need to discover
that this is the song "Spirit of the Hawk" by Rednex and then figure
out how to order the CD. Write down the scenario and print out copies for each
member of the group! Still no looking at the site permitted!
- Each group
member reviews the usability heuristics, takes the scenario, and now spends 1.5-2
hours alone, not talking with any of the group memebers, and looks at the site.
Go through the interface several times and inspect the various dialogue elements
and compare them with the usability heuristics. Go through at least twice, once
for the general flow, once for specific elements. Take very exact notes on all
the problems you find. Don't worry about solutions to the problems, we just want
the problems. Assign priorities to the problems found:
| Score | Severity | Fix Priority |
| 4 | catastrophic problem | Imperative |
| 3 | major
problem | high |
| 2 | minor problem | low |
| 1 | cosmetic problem only | |
| 0 | not
a problem | |
- Now the group meets together
and prepares a group report that includes all problems. If more than one person
finds a problem then average the priorities assigned. Include statistics on how
many persons reported each problem. Your final report for today will include this
group report and a link to the individual reports of each team member. Remember
to put your names on the reports!
Submit theURL and a writen copy
to me by the begin of the next exercise.
Results:
Debora Weber-Wulff
(weberwu@fhtw-berlin.de)