How to carry out a usability expert review

🎓 Course Title: Mastering Usability Expert Review: A Comprehensive Guide to Enhancing User Experience

Headline: Dive into the World of Expert Reviews and Elevate Your UX Skills!

Course Description:

Unlock the Secrets of Expert Reviews, a critical skill for any UX consultant or professional aiming to optimize web, software, and mobile user interfaces. This course is your key to identifying and rectifying common usability issues, ensuring your products meet the highest standards of user experience.

Usability expert reviews are an essential tool in the UX arsenal, offering a swift, cost-effective, and insightful analysis of design elements. They act as a sanity check, validating whether the design aligns with usability principles. Despite their importance, many struggle to apply generic usability heuristics effectively or derive actionable recommendations for the design team.

This seminar demystifies the process of conducting expert reviews by teaching you how to think like a seasoned usability expert. You'll gain invaluable insights and hands-on practice with proven techniques that will elevate your UX skills to new heights.

What You'll Learn:

• Understanding the Difference: Learn the distinction between a constructive usability inspection and mere personal opinion, which is crucial for objective evaluation.

• Quick Techniques: Master some fast, effective techniques for carrying out usability reviews on prototypes and finished products without compromising on quality.

• Heuristic Evaluation: Apply Jakob Nielsen's heuristic evaluation technique to ensure your software, product, or web site is user-friendly and efficient.

• Comparative Analysis: Compare Nielsen's heuristics with other sets of guidelines such as ISO’s 7 dialogue principles, Shneiderman’s 8 golden rules of dialog design, and Tog’s 16 principles of interaction design to create a more comprehensive evaluation.

• Cognitive Walkthrough: Use the task-based cognitive walkthrough method to identify aspects of your design that may confuse new users or lead to errors.

Course Materials:

You'll get your hands on:

• Comprehensive Notes to guide you through each concept and technique.

• Detailed Usability Checklists and Workbooks for the Heuristic Evaluation and Cognitive Walkthrough, which are indispensable tools for any UX professional.

• An Expert Review Reporting Template in both PowerPoint and Keynote formats, complete with a design that you can customize to present your findings professionally.

Additional Benefits:

• Downloadable Content: All video lectures and worksheets are available for download, so you can access the course materials anytime, anywhere, even if you have a slow internet connection or want to use them offline on your laptop, smartphone, or other devices.

• Transcriptions: Every lecture comes with a full transcription as a text document. This is particularly useful for non-native English speakers or those who prefer reading over listening.

• Certificate of Completion: Upon finishing the course, you will receive a certificate that not only showcases your commitment to learning but also makes you eligible for free refresher training.

Embark on a journey to become a master in usability expert reviews and take your UX skills from good to great. Enroll in this course today and transform the way you approach user experience design! 🌟