Week 5

Week 5: Usability: Heuristics & Best Practices
Topics:

•Information Design Best Practices
•Heuristics Evaluations
•Functionalist Approach to Page Type
Readings:

10 Things I Learned in Web School (HTML)
Exercises:

Review information design best practices. Conducting an heuristics evaluation of an existing site. Create an heuristics evaluation report.
Assignment:

Select three (3) functionally different pages from a highly interactive site, capture screenshots, annotate violations of information design best practices, review two or three competitor sites' pages for similar content and functionality, and make recommendations for improvements in a report.