IS 214 Spring 2000
Assignment 2
Usability Heuristics
 

• Pick one of the following:

1. A website related to your final project
2. A part of the California Digital Library
3. a web site that you use (not one that you have designed).
 
• Develop a set of heuristics for the site.  You can begin with Nielsen's and/or Instone's, but you must modify, add to, and/or to customize them to your site.  Present them in 1-2 pages.
• Reflect on the process of developing your heuristics: what were your considerations?  What sources did you draw on?  Why did you pick/develop the ones that you did?  E.g., it's often what drives us crazy that suggests new heuristics, whereas what a site does well is often transparent to us.  Write a couple of paragraphs about this.
• Evaluate the site, and write a 2-page report to the designers telling them how the site did and what needs to be changed.  Recommendations for changes must be tied to the heuristics violated; they can't simply be 'good ideas' or 'obvious.'
• Write a 1-2 paragraph reflection on what you learned in doing this assignment.

DUE FEBRUARY 24.