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<LI><em>Subject</em>: [MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar </LI>
<LI><em>From</em>: J C Lawrence <<A HREF="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Tue, 05 May 1998 17:49:32 -0700</LI>
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On Thu, 30 Apr 1998 18:22:46 -0500 (CDT)
Cat <cat#bga,com> wrote:
> There is some writing on these subjects out there, but I don't know
> if there's anything I'd highly recommend, and I'm not very motivated
> to go read everything I can find just to know what to suggest to
> people. The best approach is just to plunge in and think hard and
> do the best you can. That said, my senior apprentice does often
> recommend the following to people:
> <A HREF="http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html">http://www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.html</A>
An absolutely wonderful site in general BTW. His web design
recommendations are particularly refreshing (and very insightful, even
if Kanga.Nu violates them regularly).
From the above URL:
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Ten Usability Heuristics
Visibility of system status
The system should always keep users informed about what is going
on, through appropriate feedback within reasonable time.
Match between system and the 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.
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.
Consistency and standards
Users should not have to wonder whether different words,
situations, or actions mean the same thing. Follow platform
conventions.
Error prevention
Even better than good error messages is a careful design which
prevents a problem from occurring in the first place.
Recognition rather than recall
Make 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I originally developed the heuristics for heuristic evaluation in
collaboration with Rolf Molich in 1990 [Molich and Nielsen 1990;
Nielsen and Molich 1990]. I since refined the heuristics based on a
factor analysis of 249 usability problems [Nielsen 1994a] to derive a
set of heuristics with maximum explanatory power, resulting in this
revised set of heuristics [Nielsen 1994b].
See Also: Keith Instone's examples of using these heuristics for Web designs
References
Molich, R., and Nielsen, J. (1990). Improving a human-computer
dialogue, Communications of the ACM 33, 3 (March), 338-348.
Nielsen, J., and Molich, R. (1990). Heuristic evaluation of user
interfaces, Proc. ACM CHI'90 Conf. (Seattle, WA, 1-5 April),
249-256.
Nielsen, J. (1994a). Enhancing the explanatory power of
usability heuristics. Proc. ACM CHI'94 Conf. (Boston, MA, April
24-28), 152-158.
Nielsen, J. (1994b). Heuristic evaluation. In Nielsen, J., and
Mack, R.L. (Eds.), Usability Inspection Methods, John Wiley &
Sons, New York, NY.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00264" HREF="msg00264.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar Crossfire MUD</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Thu 30 Apr 1998, 07:18 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00269" HREF="msg00269.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar</A></strong>,
Dr. Cat <a href="mailto:cat#bga,com">cat#bga,com</a>, Thu 30 Apr 1998, 17:13 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00279" HREF="msg00279.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar</A></strong>,
s001gmu <a href="mailto:s001gmu#nova,wright.edu">s001gmu#nova,wright.edu</a>, Thu 30 Apr 1998, 20:53 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00287" HREF="msg00287.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar</A></strong>,
Dr. Cat <a href="mailto:cat#bga,com">cat#bga,com</a>, Thu 30 Apr 1998, 23:23 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00407" HREF="msg00407.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar</A></strong>,
J C Lawrence <a href="mailto:claw#under,engr.sgi.com">claw#under,engr.sgi.com</a>, Tue 05 May 1998, 18:21 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00292" HREF="msg00292.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar</A></strong>,
Caliban Tiresias Darklock <a href="mailto:caliban#darklock,com">caliban#darklock,com</a>, Fri 01 May 1998, 04:12 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00295" HREF="msg00295.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: (fwd) AD: [custom graphical] whitestar</A></strong>,
Dr. Cat <a href="mailto:cat#bga,com">cat#bga,com</a>, Fri 01 May 1998, 07:38 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00300" HREF="msg00300.html">[MUD-Dev] OT: CGDC</A></strong>,
Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:adam#angel,com">adam#angel,com</a>, Fri 01 May 1998, 18:43 GMT
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00343" HREF="msg00343.html">[MUD-Dev] Re: OT: CGDC</A></strong>,
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