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UX Reviews: Which one? How long?

Expert Reviews. Reviewing the websites and applications of clients and their competitors is big business for UX professionals. Expert evaluations, competitor reviews, and opportunity reviews provide key insights for clients, so choosing the right type of review for the job is a vital UX skill.

By Frances Miller, 12 March 2012

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A Guide To Heuristic Website Reviews

Expert Reviews.     In this article, we’ll explore a scoring system for rating and comparing websites, we’ll visualize those ratings using infographics, and we’ll see what data and structure this method provides for reviewing websites. How To Tell Whether A Website Is Junk We are all reviewers.

By Leigh Howells, 16 December 2011

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Psychological Usability Heuristics

Expert Reviews. By Jordi Sánchez Translating Susan Weinschenk's UX psychology facts into usability heuristics. Some time ago, Susan Weinschenk wrote about the psychologist’s view of UX design, listing a number of facts about the human mind that can be directly applied to interface design.

By Jordi Sánchez, 28 September 2011

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Debating the Fundamentals

Expert Reviews. By Alex Faaborg The debates between specific usability heuristics will come to shape your career as a designer. Usability heuristics are each hailed as irrefutably true. They serve as our shared vocabulary for expressing why an interface is good or bad, and as an effective tool for teaching people about interactive design.

By Alex Faaborg, 8 September 2011

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What’s the difference between a Heuristic Evaluation and a Cognitive Walkthrough?

Expert Reviews. Heuristic Evaluations and Cognitive Walkthroughs belong to a family of techniques called Inspection Methods. Inspection methods, like Keystroke Level Modeling, are analytic techniques. They don't involve users and tend to generate results for a fraction of the time and cost as empirical techniques like usability testing.

2 August 2011

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