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Heuristic evaluation of user interfaces
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Seattle, Washington, United States
Pages: 249 - 256  
Year of Publication: 1990
ISBN:0-201-50932-6
Authors
Jakob Nielsen  Technical University of Denmark, Department of Computer Science, DK-2800 Lyngby Copenhagen, Denmark
Rolf Molich  Baltica A/S, Mail Code B22, Klausdalsbrovej 601, DK-2750 Ballerup, Denmark
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SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
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ACM  New York, NY, USA
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ABSTRACT

Heuristic evaluation is an informal method of usability analysis where a number of evaluators are presented with an interface design and asked to comment on it. Four experiments showed that individual evaluators were mostly quite bad at doing such heuristic evaluations and that they only found between 20 and 51% of the usability problems in the interfaces they evaluated. On the other hand, we could aggregate the evaluations from several evaluators to a single evaluation and such aggregates do rather well, even when they consist of only three to five people.


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