How to carry out a usability expert review (Udemy.com)

Learn how to find and fix usability and user experience bloopers in web, software and mobile user interfaces.

( 50 Reviews )

Created by: David Travis

Produced in 2014

What you will learn

Appreciate the difference between a usability inspection and someone's personal opinion.
Learn and practice some quick techniques for carrying out usability reviews of prototypes and finished products.
Apply Jakob Nielsen's "heuristic evaluation" technique to software, products and web sites.
Compare Nielsen's heuristics with other sets of guidelines, like ISO's 7 dialogue principles, Shniederman's 8 golden rules of dialog design and Tog's 16 principles of interaction design
Uncover the elements of your design that lead new users to make errors, using the task-based "cognitive walkthrough" method.

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Course Description

Learn how to carry out one of the most in-demand user experience techniques the Usability Expert Review. Knowing how to competently carry out an expert review is a skill that should be in every UX consultant's toolbox. Expert reviews are a great way to identify "usability bloopers" with a product or web site. They are quick, cost-effective and provide an immediate sanity check for the design. Expert reviews are also an ideal way to ensure that a product or web site will meet usability standards. But many people find it difficult to identify specific usability issues from generic usability heuristics. Beginners also find it hard to derive action-oriented recommendations that can be passed to the design team. This seminar reveals the practitioner secrets behind expert reviews and will teach you how to think like a usability expert.

Appreciate the difference between a usability inspection and someone's personal opinion.
Learn and practice some quick techniques for carrying out usability reviews of prototypes and finished products.
Apply Jakob Nielsen's heuristic evaluation technique to software, products and web sites.
Compare Nielsen's heuristics with other sets of guidelines, like ISO's 7 dialogue principles, Shniederman's 8 golden rules of dialog design and Tog's 16 principles of interaction design
Uncover the elements of your design that lead new users to make errors, using the task-based cognitive walkthrough method.

As well as a set of comprehensive notes, you'll download detailed usability checklists and workbooks to help you carry out the most valuable techniques: the Heuristic Evaluation and the Cognitive Walkthrough. You'll also download an expert review reporting template in PowerPoint and Keynote format that you can re-brand and use to report back the results of your own expert reviews. - All of the video lectures and worksheets are download-enabled. If you have a slow internet connection, or want to take this course with you on your laptop, smartphone or other portable device, sign up and download all the videos and other course materials now. - Every lecture has been fully transcribed as a text document. This is useful if English isn't your native language or if you just want a readable and searchable version of the course. - On completion of the training, you will receive a certificate of completion and be eligible for free, e-mail-based, refresher training. Who this course is for:

This seminar is for you if you are looking for practical, cost-effective methods to evaluate designs.
This is an in-depth course in one area of user experience and is most effective for delegates who have day-to-day responsibility for ensuring usability within their organisation.
Common job titles include web designer, software designer, user interface designer, user experience designer and usability practitioner.

Time: 5.5h

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David Travis

4.9 Rating
50 Reviews

I'm on a mission to create more user experience professionals.
Perhaps you'd like a job in user experience. Or maybe you already work in the field but you've never had any formal training. Or maybe you want to improve your skills in one specific area, like usability testing or expert reviews. I've turned thousands of people into user experience designers and researchers and now you can join their ranks by taking my courses on Udemy.
You're probably curious about my background. At 18, I appeared as an extra in the film "Quadrophenia" alongside Sting and Ray Winstone. Despite a critically-acclaimed performance lasting 5 seconds, follow-up offers from Hollywood failed to arrive so I turned to psychology where I gained a BSc and a PhD. Since 1989 I've worked in the fields of human factors, usability and user experience and I've published three books on usability. I'm now a User Experience Strategist at Userfocus, a consultancy specialising in user experience. I'm also an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a Chartered Psychologist and a member of the User Experience Professionals Association. I'm no longer in contact with Sting or Ray Winstone, whose career trajectories have been somewhat different.
I've provided usability support to top brands like HP, Microsoft, Whirlpool, Orange, Skype, eBay and Yahoo! and I've also consulted with public sector organisations like The Greater London Authority, Her Majesty

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By Lucila Lizano on

I think the course is wonderful! I have learned a lot. The lessons and references that Mr. Travis shared with us are invaluable.

By Yuna Lee on

I really enjoyed this class! this course encourages me to read and learn more about UX in general. it takes much longer than I expected but worth it to invest my $ and time this holiday!

By Jeanette Carrell on

I think David Travis is a terrific teacher. Approachable delivery of content and highly practical tips and resources for those of us practicing end-to-end user-centered research daily.

By ?pek BOLAKA on

Awesome course and great content! I would recommend this course for anyone !

By Adrienne Yang on

Love the worksheets and concrete examples to practice and apply our heuristic knowledge.

By merin glennon on

Seriously quaity information. Excelent examples. Practicle applications.

By Nathalie Frensley on

This course is terrific! I actively seek out David Travis' courses, articles, and presentations -- he is a luminary in the field.

By Gwendolyn A Jewiss on

Yes, this course is very good in its examples and thorough explanations.

By Jennifer Summar on

So far it appears that he will cover a good deal of material on a subject that I could use more practice on and more tools and resources to help me conduct them in my organization.

By Ajit Vaidya on

One of the best online courses available!David is a really talented instructor with a cool sense of humor.This course will surely help to get a solid understanding of fundamentals of UX and usability. Also, it will give you confidence for your day-to-day tasks as a UX/UI Designer.The resources provided with this course are also very helpful.I would really like to thank David for taking so much efforts in planning this course and putting it on Udemy at such an affordable price.Regards.

By Sean Mcilroy on

Concise and clear so far, with an interesting introduction about the tutor. Id like to know earlier in the course if we will be told about how to go about arranging usability tests and expert reviews.

By Adle Gide on