Assignment 1:
Examples for Nielsen's 10 Usability Heuristics

Deliverable

For each of the 10 usability heuristics

• Find one positive example
• Find one negative example

For each example include an image of the interface. You many annotate the image, or include a "before and after" image to show different states or compare a good and bad version.

Your examples should be qualitatively different than the ones shown in class. A progress bar for uploading files to Dropbox is NOT qualitatively different than a progress bar for uploading images to Picnik. The aesthetic minimalism of Google Drive is NOT qualitatively different than the aesthetic minimalism of the Google home screen. Push yourself to reflect on your experience using applications to find how these heuristics manifest themselves in your life.

For each positive example, include these prompts and answer them succinctly.

• What is the interface?
• How does it meet the heuristic?
• What needs and/or abilities does it serve?

For each negative example, include these prompts and answer them succinctly.

• What is the interface?
• How does it fail the heuristic?
• What needs and/or abilities does it fail to serve?

Submit

Submit one combined PDF of your examples to Courseworks.

Please post any questions about this assignment or others to the class Piazza forum.