Match between the system and the real world with examples
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What goes through your mind whenever you see red color as a response for a field you just filled or a button that you just clicked? If you thought of…
Aesthetic and minimalist design – Nielsen’s Heuristic with example
Our brain can only process limited information at a time. The aesthetic and minimalist design is important to deal with this limitation. Sometimes, the interface is too cluttered with a lack…
Help users recognise, diagnose, and recover from errors
The only thing that is worse than an error is an error message that cannot be understood in plain language. I think by now, we have already discussed that it…
Flexibility and efficiency of Use
Flexibility and efficiency of use heuristic principle is about giving your users ways to speed up their work with more efficiency and flexibility. It’s the seventh heuristics guideline of Nielsen’s Heuristics.…
Recognition rather than recall
The human brain retrieves information through Recognition rather than recall As discussed on the other Nielsen’s heuristics, Consistency and Standards and Match between the system and the real world, a human…
Consistency and Standards with Examples
A human mind is an amazing pattern recognizing machine. We do a lot of things on autopilot, right from brushing our teeth or using keys to open the doors. These…
Error prevention
Undoubtedly, a good product should inform its users about an error, but the best products are those which prevent an error to happen in the first place. A good UX…
User control and freedom
User control and freedom Neilsen’s heuristics is about giving the users the freedom to undo an unwanted action. Users often choose system functions by mistake and will need a clearly marked…
What is Usability?
Usability defined in simple terms is the quality of a product that determines how easy it is to use it without facing any negative emotion. For Instance, Let’s say you…
Steps to conduct the Usability Audits with Heuristic Evaluation
You can follow the following steps to conduct the usability audits with heuristic evaluation. Different products have different requirements, so it’s very important to customize each and every step to…