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    Jakob Nielsen developed 10 heuristic principles for user interface design based on his work with Rolf Molich in 1990 and refined in 1994. The principles provide guidelines for design including keeping users informed of system status, speaking the user's language, allowing users control and freedom with easy undo and redo, preventing errors through careful design, helping users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors, following standards for consistency, minimizing memory load through recognition over recall, accommodating both novice and expert users, using aesthetic and minimalist design, and providing help and documentation that is easy to search and focused on tasks.

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    10 Heuristic Principles: by Jakob Nielsen

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    Jakob Nielsen developed 10 heuristic principles for user interface design based on his work with Rolf Molich in 1990 and refined in 1994. The principles provide guidelines for design including keeping users informed of system status, speaking the user's language, allowing users control and freedom with easy undo and redo, preventing errors through careful design, helping users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors, following standards for consistency, minimizing memory load through recognition over recall, accommodating both novice and expert users, using aesthetic and minimalist design, and providing help and documentation that is easy to search and focused on tasks.

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    Jakob Nielsen developed 10 heuristic principles for user interface design based on his work with Rolf Molich in 1990 and refined in 1994. The principles provide guidelines for design including keeping users informed of system status, speaking the user's language, allowing users control and freedom with easy undo and redo, preventing errors through careful design, helping users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors, following standards for consistency, minimizing memory load through recognition over recall, accommodating both novice and expert users, using aesthetic and minimalist design, and providing help and documentation that is easy to search and focused on tasks.

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    10 Heuristic Principles: by Jakob Nielsen

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    Jakob Nielsen developed 10 heuristic principles for user interface design based on his work with Rolf Molich in 1990 and refined in 1994. The principles provide guidelines for design including keeping users informed of system status, speaking the user's language, allowing users control and freedom with easy undo and redo, preventing errors through careful design, helping users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors, following standards for consistency, minimizing memory load through recognition over recall, accommodating both novice and expert users, using aesthetic and minimalist design, and providing help and documentation that is easy to search and focused on tasks.

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    The key takeaways are that Jakob Nielsen developed 10 usability heuristics for user interface design based on his work with Rolf Molich in 1990. These heuristics are still widely used today to evaluate user interfaces.

    A heuristic evaluation is a usability inspection method where evaluators examine an interface and judge its compliance with recognized usability principles (heuristics).

    The 10 heuristic principles outlined are: visibility of system status, match between system and real world, user control and freedom, consistency and standards, error prevention, recognition rather than recall, flexibility and efficiency of use, aesthetic and minimalist design, help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors, and help and documentation.

    10 Heuristic Principles

    By Jakob Nielsen
    Introduction
    • Jakob Nielsen's heuristics are probably the
    most-used usability heuristics for user
    interface design.

    • Nielsen developed the heuristics based on


    work together with Rolf Molich in 1990.

    • The final set of heuristics that are still used


    today were released by Nielsen in 1994.
    Introduction
    • A heuristic evaluation is a usability inspection
    method for computer software that helps to
    identify usability problems in the user
    interface (UI) design.
    • It specifically involves evaluators examining
    the interface and judging its compliance with
    recognized usability principles (the
    "heuristics").
    What is a “Heuristic” ???
    Ten Principles for UI Design
    1. Visibility of system status
    2. Match between system and real world
    3. User control and freedom
    4. Consistency and standards
    5. Error prevention
    6. Recognition rather than recall
    7. Flexibility and efficiency of use
    8. Aesthetic and minimalist design
    9. Help users recognise, diagnose & recover from errors
    10.Help and documentation
    1. Visibility of system status
    The system should always keep users informed
    about current state and actions through
    appropriate visual cues and feedback within
    reasonable time.
    2. Match between system & real world
    The system should speak the users' language,
    with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the
    user, rather than system-oriented terms. Follow
    real-world conventions, making information
    appear in a natural and logical order. .
    3. User control and freedom
    Users often choose system functions by mistake
    and will need a clearly marked "emergency exit"
    to leave the unwanted state without having to go
    through an extended dialogue. Support undo and
    redo.
    4. Error prevention
    Even better than good error messages is a careful
    design which prevents a problem from occurring
    in the first place. Either eliminate error-prone
    conditions or check for them and present users
    with a confirmation option before they commit to
    the action.
    5. Help users recognize, diagnose, and
    recover from errors
    Error messages should be expressed in plain
    language (no codes), precisely indicate the
    problem, and constructively suggest a solution.
    6. Consistency and standards
    Users should not have to wonder whether
    different words, situations, or actions mean the
    same thing. Follow platform conventions.
    7. Recognition rather than recall
    Minimize the user's memory load by making
    objects, actions, and options visible. The user
    should not have to remember information from
    one part of the dialogue to another. Instructions
    for use of the system should be visible or easily
    retrievable whenever appropriate.
    8. Flexibility and efficiency of use
    Accelerators --unseen by the novice user --may
    often speed up the interaction for the expert user
    such that the system can cater to both
    inexperienced and experienced users. Allow users
    to tailor frequent actions.
    9. Aesthetic and minimalist design
    Dialogues should not contain information which is
    irrelevant or rarely needed. Every extra unit of
    information in a dialogue competes with the
    relevant units of information and diminishes their
    relative visibility.
    10. Help and Documentation
    Even though it is
    better if the system
    can be used without
    documentation, it may
    be necessary to
    provide help and
    documentation. Any
    such information
    should be easy to
    search, focused on the
    user's task, list
    concrete steps to be
    carried out, and not
    be too large.
    The End???
    Is coming very soon…

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