Understanding Expert Reviews and Inspection Methods

In user research, there’s more than one expert and there’s also more than one expert review. The 1990s were the golden age of what is loosely referred to as expert reviews or by the more general term inspection methods. Unlike usability testing, which relies on observing users interact with a product or website, inspection methods—as

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Are you conducting a Heuristic Evaluation or an Expert Review?

It’s been 25 years since the development of the Heuristic Evaluation—one of the most influential usability evaluation methods. It’s cited as one of the most-used methods by practitioners. Yet its co-creator, Rolf Molich, had recently said it was “99% bad.” To understand what would drive such a comment, you need to understand the history and

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The Expert Review is More Than a Second-Rate Usability Test

Usability testing is an essential method to measure the user experience. I write a lot about the value of having actual users attempt tasks in an interface…for good reason. Observing just a few participants attempt actual tasks can reveal a great deal about interaction problems and generate ideas on what to fix. But if you

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