All right, so here's the basic outline of your assignment.
You're going to be responsible for filling out five heuristic evaluation reports.
And in each of these reports, you're going to find an application, a website,
or a technology that's been deployed but
that violates one of the ten heuristics that we've covered in this module.
You're also going to have to submit two reports
of heuristic evaluation success stories.
And in each of these success stories, you're going to find an application,
website or technology again, that's in the real world but
that has a feature design element that clearly addresses and solves, if you will,
one of the heuristics that we have covered in this module.
Across these seven different reports, five problem reports and
two success stories, we're going to expect that you focus on five different
heuristics of the ten that we've covered in this module.
And then lastly this assignment is going to be peer evaluated and
that's a critical part of the assignment.
We want you to both generate these reports as well as consume them and
see what your peers have found in terms of problems and success stories.
Okay, a bit more about each of these reports,
remember you going to have to do five of these.
They're all going to be based around a violation of a heuristic
in an application, website or technology that's in the real world.
For each of these violations,
you're going to fill out a template form about the violation.
You're going to aggregate all five reports into a single PDF and
then you're going to upload that PDF.
And as I mentioned above here, there is a report template for you, please use that
not for me but for your colleagues who will be evaluating your assignment.
It makes things a whole lot easier.
And then here's an example of a filled out template.
You can see that I have listed the application or website name.
This is using the Google Maps example that we saw earlier in this module.
I'm just providing a description of the application.
This is particularly important if it's a specific professional application or
an application that's specific to say your country,
say Ukraine or something like this that the whole world maybe wouldn't recognize.
Critically, I've listed the heuristic that I think was violated.
I've indicated a severity score of 3.
I've provided a screenshot and this is optional but
helpful to your evaluator if you use simple drawing tools.
In this case,
I just used drawing tools in Word to point out the part of the screenshot
that is particularly important to understand the violation of the heuristic.
And then below the screenshot, you can see, I've provided a couple of sentences,
for an explanation of the problem and a justification of my severity ranking.
And then critically, lastly, I've listed at least one way to solve this problem.
With regard to the solutions, don't worry if it's going to cost a million dollars or
require a development team of ten, right?
Your job here is just to think about design and
think about a potential solution.