Monday, 17 May 2010

Blogger.com usability review

http://tvustudent.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/bloggerheuristicusabilityevaluation/
The main conclusions from this evaluation:

Blogger is generally very usable and useful to users with very good usability.

■4.2 average score.
■One third of the areas of Blogger’s usability scored 4.
■5 out of 12 areas of Blogger’s usability scored 5 – exemplar usability: design a simple state space; visible system status; matches language with target user group needs; facilitates learning and effective error management was the most successful element of Blogger.
■Only 3 areas of Blogger’s interface showed minor concern about usability – giving users control and freedom, help, and navigation.
No main areas with significant issues, but the most significant were the poor utility of linking functionality and poor utility and features for managing blog performance and stats.
■No areas with serious usability flaws or catastrophes.
■The ‘Area for Improvement’ highlighted within this evaluation indicate how this could be improved and are recommendations for further redesign.

Sunday, 9 May 2010

Started abother blog on Wordpress.com

As part of this research project for my dissertation in Blog usability I am creating different blogs using different Blogware. This is so that I can conduct a heuristic evaluation of the usability of the different blogging tools. The other blog can be found at http://.tvustudent.wordpress.com/