Hello.
Fridays lecture was interesting as usual, although when Daniel walked in with a bag this week, I was expecting him to pull out another relic of technology like last week. But it turned out to be an everyday ring binder. Bit of a disappointment. The lecture focused on `Usability`, and what the term usability means. When a website is created, it is created with the intention of being people facing, so this means that the site must be deemed as usable to a wide scope of people. This usability can be measured by three factors. Effectivness, Efficiency and Satisfaction. These make up the usability triangle. We were also made aware of the experience levels, and these should be taken into consideration when designing to certain criteria.

The tutorial on Thursday was with Daniel and carried on with the theme of usability. This week we had to carry out a heuristic evaluation on the University of Glamorgan website. Unlike previous evaluations, this involved us taking an empathic view of a user. First of all we had to think o a typical user of the website and an individual task they might perform. I choose a prospective student looking to enrol at the University and is looking for a course that suits a particular field and their A level results. From this point I had to put myself in this persons shoes and browse through the website trying to complete my task, noting any difficulty’s or general usability point on the way. I found that out of all the evaluation processes, this was the better. It gave you a better perspective, and could be utilised to assess many situations.