HEURISTIC EVALUATION

INTRODUCTION

This report is about heuristic evaluation on A'kina Islamic Boutique website.

http://www.akinaislamicclothing.com/

FINDINGS

1.    Visibility of system status

First, an A'kina Islamic Boutique website makes the buttons change after user clicking the buttons to show that are the page that user are visiting. Secondly, they show the direction where the user is now. Lastly, in the website provides an indicator

12.  Match between system and the real world 

the language used in the website in the red box. A'kira Islamic Clothing boutique is use universal language it is English for their website

13.    User control and freedom

the emergency button to update or to remove the item if the user is incorrectly entered the data or details needed by the system. For A'kina Islamic Clothing boutique website provides 'View Cart' button after user click add to cart after entered the details of the item. Click the 'View Cart' button to edit or update the item details or remove the item if the user does not buy the item.

14.    Consistency and standards

the consistency in every page of the A'kina Islamic Clothing website, the placement of logo, search box, buttons, site maps, indicator and the image is the same on all pages.

15.    Recognition rather than recall

First, they use simple symbols to describe twitter and Facebook. Secondly, they just use word button to dhows that is the search button to be clicked if user want to search the item. Third, the website just using simple words to describe shopping cart, they just use 'Shopping Cart' word to describe it. Lastly, there are two arrows at the bottom of the slide image, the arrows is to change the image in the slide.

16.    Error prevention

User will get onto this page after they confirm the item they want to buy. There is the details of the item that user key-in before and user needs to make a confirmation before proceeding to the payment and submit the form

17.    Aesthetic and minimalist design

The information is simple, but containing the important message of the dress such as material of the cloth, the cloth details, size available, color available and the price according to the quantity of the item. There no unnecessary information or advertisement available. The interface designs is really simple, the color use is pink at the buttons and the main color of the website is white and the white space is balance.

18.    Help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors

Before user add the item to cart or before ‘Add to Cart' button is available user need to choose the size and the color of the item. There is an indicator as marked in the red box above shows the instruction how to do before proceed to the next step.

19.    Help and documentation

This website provides the direction at which page is useable now. For instance, at the interface shows the user is coming to this page starting from the home page, through the product page and In' Dhouse-elegance page and no user on the Ingrid bliss page.

CONCLUSION

For the conclusion, A'kina Islamic Clothing online boutique meets the Jakob Nielsen heuristic evaluation and so far there is no major problem occur on this website. This website also, provide an indicator to avoid user list and there are indicators show the problem that user done and provide helps. Overall, this website is simple, but good and providing comfort and ease of use.

REFLECTION

This assignment is to evaluate the website chosen by using heuristic evaluation.  Why using heuristic evaluation? Because it is quick, cheap and easy method to evaluate the interface design. The goal is find the usability problem in the design. There 10 type of evaluation available in this heuristic evaluation to use to evaluate the website chosen. For my assignment there 9 evaluation used to describe and prove the interface design problems in  A'kina clothing boutique website. By the evaluation I know more about usability of a website. A website should make user feel easy, comfy and quick to use it without any problem.