Re: Deja Dup UI Review

Use cases can help a lot both when creating and evaluating a design.
The usability expert is supposed to know as much as possible of the
application context while performing the heuristic evaulation.

Wikipedia explains it better than me:
"Often the heuristic evaluation is conducted in the context of use
cases (typical user tasks), to provide feedback  to the developers on
the extent to which the interface is likely to be compatible with the
intended users’ needs and preferences."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heuristic_evaluation

I tried to make an informal evaluation on the mockup, and I couldn't
ascertain which different data flows were supposed to be performed on
the dialog.

I can't say whether the panels have a good or bad structure without
knowing which primary task the user should accomplish using them.
Maybe the design is good for some basic tasks, and fails in a terrible
way for another one.

I think some user cases were already mentioned in this thread before,
that's why I asked if they were summarized together in some place.



On 17 May 2010 16:05, Andreas Nilsson <[email protected]> wrote:
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> Isn't this a heuristic evaluation, rather than a user-case based one?
> http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html
> - Andreas
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