Subject:
Usability Checklists
Usability Checklists
Many usability concepts apply to both applications
development and web site development.
The following three articles provide checklists to help you keep your users'
needs in mind.
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Usability Checklist for Site
Developers
Today's first topic is from Webreview.com, a
site that focuses on web development. Webreview.com presents itself as a source
for "detailed tutorials, practical advice, straightforward perspectives, and
complete resource guides."
This article offers five questions to ask yourself
as you design an application, followed by a ten-point checklist.
Usability Checklist for Site Developers
http://www.ddj.com/documents/s=3579/nam1012432501/index.html
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User Interface (Usability) Checklist
EPRI (the Electric Power Research Institute) calls itself "a world leader in
creating technology and environmental solutions for the energy industry and
society." Here they present a list of usability checks that they use when
developing their own software.
User Interface (Usability) Checklist
http://www.epri.com/eprisoftware/processguide/uichk.html
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First Principles
Bruce Tognazzini, a distinguished human interface engineer (see
About Bruce Tognazzini
) has developed a list of sixteen principles to guide your design of effective
interfaces.
These principles include:
Anticipation
Autonomy
Color Blindness
Consistency
Defaults
Efficiency of the User
Explorable Interfaces
Fitts's Law
Human Interface Objects
Latency Reduction
Learnability
Use of Metaphors
Protect Users' Work
Readability
Track State
Visible Navigation
"Tog" explains these principles in the following article.
First Principles
http://www.asktog.com/basics/firstPrinciples.html
