Heuristic Evaluation of the Tele-Bears Redesign Project
Maria Lawrence
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[H1 Simple
and Natural Dialogue] (Severity 2) |
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| Search Results Section: The amount of the text in that box makes it hard to read, and differentiate between the query information, the instructional text and the query results. Perhaps you can offset the instructional text by displaying it in a different color or on a different background, and shorten it to read: “Click on chosen course and press the Add button.” It would also be helpful if the entire course title is clickable, in addition to just the radio button next to it. | ||
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[H1 Simple
and Natural Dialogue] (Severity 1) |
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| Sandbox and Registration Sections: This is more about logical grouping than the text itself. I would put status information (e.g. number of units) in the same area of the page as the feedback (e.g. you have successfully registered.) | ||
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[H1
Simple and Natural Dialogue] (Severity 1) |
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| Sandbox and Registration Sections (frames version): Again, same grouping issue w/r/t status and feedback info. Also the info about having “successfully enrolled” makes more sense near the calendar section of the page rather than the search section of the page. | ||
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[H2 Speak the Users' Language] (Severity 2) |
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| Search Results: In the instructional text, making reference to the ‘technical’ term ‘radio button’ may not be meaningful to all users. Perhaps, as suggested above, you could solve this by making the entire course title and the radio button clickable and using the shortened copy. | ||
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[H4 Consistency] (Severity 1) | |
| Registration and Sandbox Sections: The feedback text is not all in the same color. Right now the number of units information is in black and the status information about having successfully enrolled is in red. If this information was grouped together (as mentioned above) and all the same color it might make it more noticeable. | ||
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[H4 Consistency] (Severity 1) | |
| Registration Section (frames version): Again, standardizing the text color of the different types of information, and grouping it together could help it become more noticeable. In the frames version of the first interactive prototype, the instructional text is navy blue, the status information is in red and the units information is in black. | ||
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[H4 Consistency] (Severity 1) | |
| Sitewide: Typographical inconsistencies exist between buttons, section labels/tabs, and instructional text. Sandbox is sometimes capitalized, sometimes not. Search is sometimes capitalized, sometimes not. The Add button is referred to as ADD in the instructional text on the add a discussion section screen. | ||
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[H8 Good Error Messages] (Severity 4) | |
| Sitewide: I am sure this is in the plan for future versions, but currently there are no error messages associated with any disallowed actions. You can search on no criteria, add a course when none are selected, etc. |