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Usability Checklist Guidelines

Posted on April 09, 2008 / 1 Comments / Permalink

Diversity or Flexibility and Efficiency of Use
Main navigation loads fast. Provide detailed explanation of topics and navigation options for new users. Provide text index for quick access to all pages. Ensure pages are readable in many formats.
Speak the Users' Language
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.
Consistency
Consistency in menus, help screens, colour, layout, capitalisation, fonts and sequences of actions.
Informative Feedback
Informative Feedback within a reasonable time for example rollover buttons. Inform users of where they are.
Recognition rather than Recall
To minimize the users' memory load making objects, actions, and options visible; for example navigation elements that are obvious and distinguishable
Error Prevention
For example menu selections or inform of required fields at the top of the form.
Web Conventions
For example underlined links, position help link at the top right corner or use common terminology
Site Structure
For example clearly marked exits, shortcuts and logical site hierarchy
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
Provide good error messages in plain language, 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.

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