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Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics 0:42
A 42-second explainer of Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics, narrated over the same demo you can try yourself.
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What this video covers
Nielsen's 10 usability heuristics are ten rules of thumb for spotting interface problems - keep users informed, speak their language, prevent errors, and so on. They are the checklist behind a heuristic evaluation, and the most widely used yardstick in usability.
Open a few and you will recognise every one from interfaces that broke them - the form that lost your data, the jargon nobody understood, the dead end with no way back. The ten are less a test to memorise than a name for problems you have already felt.
