Nielsen’s Heuristic Evaluation (NHE)

The next user acceptance test is called the Nielsen’s Heuristic Evaluation.  It’s a usability test to determine the Web sites Heuristic’s.  On Jakob Nielsen’s site useit.com he states, “Heuristic evaluation is done as a systematic inspection of a user interface design for usability. The goal of heuristic evaluation is to find the usability problems in the design so that they can be attended to as part of an iterative design process.”  It’s a quick and painless test that most Web designers can afford to do and it’s a test that can be conveniently used at short periods of time though out the Web site design and development phase.  To add, Jakob Nielsen states, “Heuristic evaluation is a discount usability engineering method for quick, cheap, and easy evaluation of a user interface design.”  The test consist of the following information: a rating on a scale from 1 to 7 meaning 1 is bad and 7 is good.  It has an optional NA answer for testers to answer.  There are only 10 questions on this test for the tester to answer.

Link to actual test.