Week 6

Last weeks lecture i found very boring, i found myself easily loosing concerntration during the lecture. i found that using the OHP to explain usuability was not very useful. when we had geene stubbs i found she was able to hold everyones conerntration alot more due to the use of the internet as also good examples of graphics etc... overall though i did get the idea of usuablility but i find that if the lecturer was to use the the use of computers i would hold my concerntration alot better.

During the tutorial this week we had to consider ways in which we couldn include user tasks into usability evaluation. First we had to think of a typical user of the University of Glamorgan Website, once we had done that we had to think of a task which they would typically perform. Once we did this we had to imagine we were the user and evaluate how easy the task was to perform, and write down any problems using the website, which may need to be altered in order for the user to have the easiest and most efficent use of the website. Once we had noticed these we then had to give the task to another student to perform to analyse how they perfomed the task and note down any problems that i didnt notice but they did.
Two external links this week was hard. So therefore i have chosen the website which we did our task on and also the Nielsen's Ten Usabiltiy Heuristics

http://www.glam.ac.uk/
www.useit.com/papers/heuristic/heuristic_list.htm